Here is an amazing photo donated to our Home of the Brave Museum by the men assigned to the 490 Bomb group (H), 849th Bomb Squadron located in Eye, England. The number you see, 8557, was their assigned crew number for training purposes during their time in the United States. These brave men flew B-17 bomber aircraft and had the callsign "Abrade" during their missions throughout the many countries in Europe like Germany, France, Holland, Czechoslovakia and more!.
In the top row from left to right you have Wendell S. Snyder, the flight engineer-Peter Malires, the radio operator-Robert A. Johnson, the waist gunner-Carl B. Johnson, Jr. the ball gunner and Newton B. Parker, the tail gunner. In the bottom row from left to right you have Robert A. Norvell, the aircraft commander-Lorenzo G. Smith, Jr. the Co-pilot-Gordon P. Lake, the navigator and finally Leo L. Borden, the bombardier.
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