487th Bomb Group (H)
Station 137 - Lavenham, Suffolk, UK
22-Sep-43 to 7-Nov-45

Allensworth Crew - 839th Squadron
Back row L to R: William Allensworth(pilot), 2nd Lt Howard Duncan (Co-pilot), Radio operator (name unknown), Oscar Barney (navigator), Tom Harris(bombardier)
Front row: Engineer, rear gunner, all others-gunners (names unknown)
Note from Oscar Barney: Tom Harris did not accompany them as bombardier whole time in England. Oscar Barney acted as navigator and bombardier
The crew arrived in Lavenham as: William Allensworth (pilot), Howard Duncan (copilot), Oscar Barney (navigator), Scott Morris (flight engineer), Brenzel Spradlen (radio operator), Kenneth Huch (armorer gunner), Roland Buttgereit (aerial gunner), William Gohsman (aerial gunner), Herbert Watts (aerial gunner)
An educated guess is that Harris was not assigned as part of the crew to the 487th, and that the unknown men in the photo are actually the others named above
(photo provided by Oscar Barney)


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