My grandfather, Lt. James Crockett, was shot down piloting this exact plane, 42-51967, over Graz, Austria on March 4, 1945. His co-pilot, Lt. MacDonnell Moore, gave a good interview about the mission to the Baltimore Sun a few years ago. There’s a PDF of the operations order on 484th.org. The crew bailed first and ended up getting executed on-site by SS officers and my grandfather and his co-pilot flew a few more miles trying to give his crew a chance.
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Numbers from I to 99 were divided into four parts;
1 to 24 were assigned to the 824 squadron
26 to 49 to the 825 squadron
50 to 72 to the 826 squadron
73 to 99 to the 827 squadron.
This arrangement was generally true for many 15th Air Force Bomb Groups.
My grandfather, Lt. James Crockett, was shot down piloting this exact plane, 42-51967, over Graz, Austria on March 4, 1945. His co-pilot, Lt. MacDonnell Moore, gave a good interview about the mission to the Baltimore Sun a few years ago. There’s a PDF of the operations order on 484th.org. The crew bailed first and ended up getting executed on-site by SS officers and my grandfather and his co-pilot flew a few more miles trying to give his crew a chance.
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