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2nd Lt. Jack Hunter

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2nd Lt Jack Hunter P KIA 11-May-44 Liege
2nd Lt George W. Shoesmith CP KIA 11-May-44 Liege
2nd Lt Richard J. Heh NAV POW 11-May-44 Liege
2nd Lt Murray J. Lirette BOM POW 11-May-44 Liege
S/Sgt Spiro Lecouras ROG KIA 11-May-44 Liege
S/Sgt Arthur L. Wellingham TTE KIA 11-May-44 Liege
Sgt Herbert S. South TG POW 11-May-44 Liege
Sgt Ernest D. Medhurst BTG CPT -- --
Sgt Robert H. Kuehl WG KIA 11-May-44 Liege
Sgt Samuel J. Martiello WG WIA -- Nantes

351st Sqdn. Crew, as above, joined the 100th Group on 5/4/44. On 11/5/44.

S/Sgts Charley L. Anglin, BT and John Rupnick, RW, were flying in place of Martiello & Medhurst and both were KIA. Both Anglin & Rupnick were listed on the crew of R. V. E. Monrad on 8/3/44. Rupnick was originally on the M. E. Beatty crew when it joined the 100th on 6/9/43.

Immediately after bombs were released, A/C received a direct flak hit in wing at #1 engine. Part of wing blown off & A/C went down in flaming spin. Heh, Lirette and South were blown out of A/C. South suffered a compound fracture of a leg when blown from a/c.

German Reports:
Notes Lt Murray Lirette committed to the hospital on 13 May 1944 and states the dead buried at the Luffwaffe Cemetery at Trond air base.

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