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Owen "Keith" Griffith Crew (left to right):
Standing: Bob Gladdin, Jim Brand, Owen Griffith, John Wilson, and Stanley
Kermick
Kneeling: Russell Johnson, Walter Lovvorn, and Everett White.
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| 2ND LT OWEN K. GRIFFITH |
P |
FEH |
| 2ND LT JOHN W. WILSON, JR. |
CP |
FEH |
| 2ND LT JAMES T. BRAND (Buried
Cambridge cemetery) |
NAV |
KIC
Lt W. D. Pratt |
| S/SGT RICHARD W. PERRAS |
TG |
FEH |
| CPL JAMES R. GLADDEN |
WG |
FEH |
| CPL RUSSELL P. JOHNSON |
ROG |
FEH |
| CPL EVERETT S. WHITE |
BTG |
FEH |
| CPL WALTER M. LOVVORN |
NG |
FEH |
| CPL STANLEY J. KURNIK |
TTE |
FEH |
418th Sqdn. Crew, as above, joined the 100th Group on 18/2/45
Letter received from O. K. Griffith Jan. 1985 says this crew flew nine
missions with the 100th. He mentions as Bombardier one Allen Glaskin and a
Bob Gladden as Waist Gunner
Griffith adds that "Troy Brand was killed in a training accident at
Thorpe Abbotts on May 11, 1945. " This would have been three days after
V-E day and Brand is shown as FEH (flying at end of hostilities) in most
records. In a 1994 conversation with Paul West, Griffith stated that W. D.
Pratt committed suicide after the war.
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