Edward Van Allen was acting 717th Commander for a while and later became Deputy Group Commander. He was my father-in-law. He was lost ferrying a Cessna 182 from Southern California to Hawaii in 1974. Rob Norris
STATUS UPDATE for MACR 2711 and 12511 By Johnie E Webb, Jr / Defense POW/MIA accounting Agency, Joint Base Pearl Harbor – Hicham, Hawaii February 2017 KENDALL CREW – MACR 2711 On 30 Jan 1944, B-24H #41-29217 with a crew of ten was hit by a fighter and anti-aircraft...
What a truly awesome web site and my congratulations to those who have designed it and maintain it. My father, Glenn E. Rogers, was a member of the 449th and I have wealth of his military pictures and files on hand. Mike Rogers Blue Ridge, GA
Dorton, William K., Age 98. Resident of Cincinnati, OH, originally from Bluefield, West Virginia. Passed away Sunday, February 12, 2017. A proud Air Force veteran who served in the 15th Air Corp, 449th Bombing Group in WWII. He touched the lives of many and recently...
This is the foto of the unlucky Forbes Crew, that perished some 20 miles after leaving the target, the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg on Feb. 25, 1944. On that day there was the biggest air battle at the Regensburg area of WWII. The German fighter pilot,...
