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Military keyword > bombardment > Three pilots of the 409th Bombardment Squadron, 93rd Bombardment Group: (Left to right) Flight Officer Charles S. "Five By Five" Young, from Dayton, TX; Captain Jacob B. "Jake" Epting, from Tupelo, MS; and First Lieutenant Joseph Avendano, Jr, from Pomona, CA. Both Young and Avendano had prior flying service with the Royal Canadian Air Force before the U.S. entered the war, and both were later killed in non-combat related flight accidents before the end of the war. All three flew in the Ploesti raid over Romania on Aug 1st, 1943, Epting (as co-pilot) and Young (as extra co-pilot/gunner) in "Tupelo Lass," and Avendano (as pilot) in "Dogpatch Raider." Epting was the usual pilot of "Tupelo Lass," which he named, but on the Ploesti raid his squadron commander, Major K.O. "Kayo" Dessert, assigned himself to the left seat in the "Lass."
Military keyword > bombardment > Nov 13th, 1942, Alconbury, England. Col Edward J. "Ted" Timberlake (in left rear of jeep), first commander of the 93rd Bombardment Group, the first group of B-24 Liberator bombers to cross the Atlantic to join the air war in Europe and North Africa, welcomes England's King George VI (right rear of jeep) to the U.S. airbase at Alconbury. The King inspected the B-24 seen in the background, "Teggie Ann," which was flown later on the famous Ploesti raid by the 376th Bombardment Group commander Col K.K. Compton, a former squadron commander in the 93rd. From the front page of "The Liberator," the group's newsletter, founded and printed by the 93rd's public information officer, (then) Private Carroll "Cal" Stewart, who later co-authored a book about the Ploesti raid, "Ploesti: The Great Ground-Air Battle of 1 August 1943."
Military keyword > bombardment > Navigator / Lieutenant Edward "Red" Weir (second from left, in leather jacket, facing camera) and his B-24 crew gathered around a barrel at their base in England. We don't know what's taking place on top of the barrel - a last minute flight briefing? a game of dice? The B-24 in the background has the running panda bear nose art of the 409th Bombardment Squadron, 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy). Circa 1942-43.
Military keyword > bombardment > U. S. Air Force Lt Col (Ret) Edward "Red" Weir" points to his old squadron designation - the 409th Bombardment Squadron of the 93rd Bombardment Group - just behind the starboard side bomb bay doors of the B-24 where the sponsor groups are stenciled on. Ed was a B-24 navigator based in England and North Africa and had 25 combat missions, the last one over the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania. I'm in the process of writing the manuscript for my next book, which will be about Lt Col Weir's wartime experiences, based on his 1942-43 war journal.
Military keyword > bombardment > Former B-24 Liberator navigator and retired Air Force Lt Col Ed "Red" Weir. He's wearing the original A-2 jacket that he wore throughout WWII, bearing his squadron's patch of the 409th Bombardment Squadron, 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy). Ed had 25 combat missions, the last one over Ploesti, Romania on Aug 1st, 1943. His two Liberators were the "Red Ass" and the "Tupelo Lass." Photo taken in Denton, TX, 2006.
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