90th Bomb Group

Your great grandfather was a mechanic in the 90th Bomb Group assigned to the 400th Squadron. It appears he joined them in 1943 and stayed with them til the end of the war. I saw that he was promoted to Staff Sergeant in March of 45 and sent to the hospital in April of 45. His serial number was 11040...

Your dad was a photographer who went with crews on missions to document the results. I am attaching one crew that he was with when the plane went down and they had to bail out. COHEN, SAUL M. #2063568, 400th Sqdn, crew # 1, Murphy, John J. #T133801, (cp), Mahrt, John R. #2073168, (n), (kia), Gaydos,...

Four Johnson crews from Adams list. JOHNSON, LOWELL S. #421111, 319th Sqdn. crew # 1, Albrecht, Rudolph W. #790203, (n), Field, George H. #733631, (cp), Pettkus, Walter A. #730742, (b), Alexander, James W. #33107864, (e), Donnelly, James N. #37185529, (e), Hodges, Edwin L. #39451994, (g), Fortino, M...

I have four crew lists for Lark Martin and Gibson is only on the first. He does have four crew credits for enemy aircraft destroyed by bomber crews. However, the same post war order shows that Lark Martin had 10 so for some reason Gibson did not continue to fly with Martin. There was a story about L...