Scrapbook from the service of Wesley W. Dunlap : Scrapbook; Photograph 1944-1945.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Summary:

Description: Clear plastic cover with metal hinge. First page: "A Flying Fortress Goes to Germany by Capt. W.W. Dunlap. This photographic narrative is a series of pictures taken while on operational flights by crew members of the Flying Fortress "Sprit of a Nation." This album is intended to give a chronological story of a mission from briefing to interrogation... Dedicated to T/SGT William H. Frye, Killed in Action Aug 17, 1943 Schweinfurt, Ger. [Germany] S/SGT Herman E. Molen, Missing in Action Oct 14, 1943 Schweinfurt, Ger." First photograph is image of pilot Wesley Dunlap followed by nose of the "Spirit of a Nation" (B-17 bomber) and caption "The Sh__ [Ship"]; group portrait of "The Combat Crew"; group portrait of "The Ground Crew"; image of Dunlap in cockpit "Pilot. Wesley W. Dunlap, Captain, A.C" Lubbock, Texas, 25 missions completed, awarded Air Medal with 3 Oak"; "Co-pilot Edwin L. Little, Captain AC, Fairhaven, Vermont, 25 missions completed, awarded Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Distinguished Flying Cross"; Navigator at station inside plane "Navigator, Rufus T. Humphrey, 1st Lt. AC, Suffern, New York"; Bombardier at station inside plane "John R. Williams, 1st Lt. AC, Oakland, California"; "Engineer " top turret, Wayne W. Frye, T/Sgt. Killed in Action on 13th Mission, Aug. 17, 1943 over Schweinfurt, Germany"; "Left Waist Gunner, Willard L. Ward, Palestine, Texas"; "Ball Turret, Charles J. Evans, Franklin, Ohio"."; "Tail Gunner, Herman E. Molen, Farmersville, Texas"; "Radio Operator, Peter Pluth, Joliet, Illinois"; Scenes from sequence of events for bombing mission "Operations Officer receives orders that mission is being planned"; "officers target briefing"; "gunners briefing"; "loading 1000lb bombs"; "preparing" for combat mission"; "cleaning guns and checking equipment"; "waiting for takeoff"; "Final medical check, hot sandwiches and coco before takeoff"; "Line up for takeoff"; "Light inaccurate flak"; "squadron formation"; "bombs away"; "Focke Wulf 190"; "Junkers 88"; "B-17 on fire, out of control"; "Control tower crowd "Sweatin us out"; "chest wound by flak"; servicemen loading dead man into ambulance "Killed in action"; damage to planes; crew recounting crash landing; "crew picture with mascot after mission completed"; "intelligence officer interrogating".

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Description based on online resource (viewed on June 12, 2019).