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Thomas E. Murphy Crew
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1st Lt Thomas E. Murphy P KIA 8-Oct-43 Bremen
2nd Lt Marshall F. Lee CP KIA 8-Oct-43 Bremen
2nd Lt Charles C. Sarabun NAV POW 8-Oct-43 Bremen
2nd Lt Floyd C. Petterson BOM POW 8-Oct-43 Bremen
T/Sgt John J. Ehlen TTE POW 8-Oct-43 Bremen
S/Sgt Albert C. Davis WG CPT 4-Oct-43 Hanau
S/Sgt Emmett H. Evans ROG CPT 4-Oct-43 Hanau
S/Sgt Cleveland C. Jarvis BTG X-fer -- --
S/Sgt Michael Rotz WG POW 28-May-44 Madgeburg
S/Sgt Gerald O. Robinson TG POW 8-Oct-43 Bremen

351st Sqdn..CREW #22 A/C #42-5864"PICCADILLY LILY"PROBABLY THE 100TH MOST FAMOUS A/C..

Note: Alvin Barker was flying Command Pilot with this crew on 8-Oct-43 (Bremen) and was KIA.

ROG Emmett H. Evans had completed his tour on the 4 OCT 43 mission to Hanau.  On the 8 OCT 43 Bremen mission, Derrell C. Piel (KIA) was filling in as ROG.  Derrell was the original ROG on Lt. Richard C. King's crew, but was in the hospital recovering from a FLAK wound when the King crew was shot down on 3 SEPT 43 over Paris.  Upon release from the hospital, he went into a spare ROG pool.  This was his first mission flying since recovering from the FLAK wound he received on Aug. 24, 1943, over Bordeaux.  He was on his 16th mission.

ON 15 OCT 43 AT THE POST CEMETERY, WESERMUENDE, GERMANY, THE REMAINS OF MURPHY, BARKER, LEE, PIEL AND DICKERSON WERE INTERRED IN GRAVES #103 THROUGH 3107. THE PICCADILLY LILY WAS IMMORTALIZED BY SY BARLETT AND BEIRNE LAY'S "TWELVE O' CLOCK HIGH." WITHOUT A DOUBT SHE IS THE MOST REMEMBERED BOMBER OF WWII.

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