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Old 25th January 2024, 14:56
Leendert Leendert is offline
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Re: 451st BG B-24 details of loss

Website Honorstates.org provides these nine names for a 451st BG accident in Italy on 5 April 1944:

"We identified 9 casualties in our archive related to the #00-B24 04051944 incident on April 5, 1944.
◼Willard L Cotton :: Pilot
◼James L Crowe :: Nose Gunner
◼Joseph A Esposito :: Engineer
◼Ernest G Graf :: Navigator
◼Sol Marcus :: Tail Gunner
◼Robert E McGaffic :: Bombardier
◼Robert E Quisenberry :: Co-Pilot
◼Charles H Trimmer :: Waist Gunner
◼James D White :: Turret Gunner

All credits to that website. Individual details (rank, crew position, ASN/O-number, hometown...) can be looked up there.

A shortcut here: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...llard-l-cotton

Note there was one survivor.

There is a MACR 15167 for this accident: https://www.451st.org/MACRs/451st%20...20Combined.pdf

Regards,
Leendert

Last edited by Leendert; 25th January 2024 at 16:55.
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