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Aircraft of the 100th Bomb Group at Algerian airfield after a mission to Regensburg on 17 August 1943. (John E. Schwarz collection)
Maj. Gale W. ‘Buck’ Cleven, commander of the 350th
Bomb Squadron (Don Bradley collection)
Lt. Harry H. Crosby, crew navigator for Lt. John D.
Brady and later Lt. Everett E. Blakely, became later the
group’s lead navigator. (Russel W. Heckman collection)
Col. Neil B. ‘Chick’ Harding was commander of the
100th Bomb Group during its most difficult period, from
2 July 1943 to 6 March 1944. (Gale W. Cleven collection)
Lt. Everett Blakely’s crew in North Africa after the
mission to Regensburg on 17 August 1944. (Edmund
G. Fokner collection)
Both photos on the right: B-17F s/n 42-3393 Just-a-
Snappin’, flown by crew of Lt. Everett E. Blakely after
an emergency landing at RAF Ludham on their return
from Bremen on 8 October 1943. (Edmund G. Fokner
collection)
B-17G s/n 42-30725 ‘Aw-r-go’, which was shot down
on 10 October 1943 with the crew of Capt. Charles B.
Cruikshank. (100th BG Archives via Volker Urbanski)
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