#562nd BS

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Lt. Paul Kaschuba's Me 410 seen from B-17G 42-97184 of 562nd BS, 388th BG during his first and last sortie with II./ ZG 26 over Germany on 12 May 1944

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media-21498.jpeg 382×489 pixels — Read on assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/media/media-21498.jpeg 2ND LIEUTENANT JAMES R. PENNAL SHOO SHOO BABY B-17G 42-32003 388th BG HEAVY 562nd BS US 8th Army Air Corps

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The crew of a B-17F (42-31135) of the 562nd BS, 388th Bombardment Group are briefed for Noball Mission 221 over France on February 13, 1944. The officers in the center looking at the map (left to right) are bombardier 1Lt. Richard Donner, pilot 1Lt Dan Sullivan, and co-pilot 2Lt Robert Zapp.

Photo and caption featured in Osprey Air Campaign 5 Operation Crossbow 1944 Hunting Hitler’s V-weapons by Steven J. Zaloga

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Watch FACES OF FORGOTTEN HEROES VTS 02 1 Sound Version (2002) (Enhanced)

THE FACES OF OUR FORGOTTEN HEROES: directed and produced by George David Maynard, Cineaste at Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University Montreal; a school of cinema class film project Fall 2002 about Sgt. Paul Henry Pelletier, a brave ball turret gunner on the Boeing Heavy Bomber assigned to the European Theatre of War against the Nazis; it was named SHOO SHOO BABY B17 42-32003 388th BG Heavy 562nd BS 8th US Army Air Corps WWII. @George David Maynard

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"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy" says President Roosevelt. Here're some true American heroes: William A. Knowles, James R. Pennal, Guido A. Rosa, Robert Green, Albert Herrmann, Jennings W. Stutler, Paul H. Pelletier, Paul Kret, Raymond Deamer and Harry Gandee; all killed in action on April 11, 1944, shot down over Rostock Germany, on fire they crashed into the Baltic Sea.

SHOO SHOO BABY B17 42-32003 388th BG Heavy 562nd BS 8th US Army Air Corps; the ten members of its aircrew all died on April 11, 1944; when the bomber was shot down over the city of Rostock Germany, badly on fire they crashed into the Baltic Sea. @George David Maynard

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Watch FACES OF FORGOTTEN HEROES (silent version)

FACES OF FORGOTTEN HEROES (A Cinema School Docudrama 16mm Film Project Written, Produced & Directed by George David Maynard, 2002; Silent Version) - A Veterans Day Salute to the Aircrew of Shoo Shoo Baby B17 42-32003 388th BG, Heavy, 562nd BS, 8th US Army Air Corps, 10KIA April 11, 1944.