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

Gross Crew of Sweatin' It Out - B-24 of the 838th Squadron
Lt. Norman E. Gross (pilot) is standing 2nd from left, S/Sgt Benjamin A. Huebel Jr. (radio operator) is kneeling at the far left M/Sgt Vernon O. Lee (crew chief) and passenger on the trans-Atlantic flight is standing on the far right
Others in crew were Willard D. Haskell (copilot), Francis E. Moke (navigator), Milton Levine (bombardier), Charles A. McWilliams (flight engineer), Harold O. Allensworth (gunner), Stanley J. Benson (gunner), Henry B. Westhoff Jr. (gunner), Max I. Markowitz (gunner), however their position in the photo is not available
All crew members died when aircraft went down in the English Channel on 6-June-1944
(Photo provided by Vernon O. Lee, through Ivo de Jong)


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