carololsen
12/26/2011 1:58:40 PM | Don, My father, John F. Buckley, is the first person seated on the left side of the table as the picture faces us. He came home with many, many photos of the bombs dropping from his plane. Unfortunately, before he died in 1981, he must have thrown them out. I was always very interested in them and remember asking him questions -- I know several were of Dresden. He is listed as Waist Gunner. Often wonder if he did any other job -- is there a way to tell? Carol (Buckely) Olsen.
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donaldbyers
12/26/2011 4:56:24 PM | Carol,
There have been many who have done the same thing basically taking it with them. The answer to your question is yes there is a way and that is what Phase II of our upgrade will do. We will take each missions loading list and show who was on each mission with each pilot and what they were assigned too. Now that is easy to say but long to finish. If you can imagine 254 missions by 18 aircraft by 10 to 9 crew members that is a lot of data. We are working on it. Thanks for your post.....
Don Byers
Sgt. Donald C. Byers, 613th Bomb Squadron, Togglier, 42-97344 Carrie B II, KIA 08/24/1944.
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