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

Key Group Personnel - in front of Headquarters building - June 26 1945
First row L to R: Maj Simon D. Schwartz (Station Medical Officer), Maj Wendell F. Wood (Deputy Material & Maintenance), Lt Col Orville L. Buchanan (Group Operations Officer), Lt Col Lawrence A. Herman (CO 837th squadron), Lt Col John P. Veerling (CO 419 Air Service Group), Col Nicholas T. Perkins (CO 487th Bomb Group), Lt Col Howard C. Todt (Deputy Operations), Lt Col William J. Choniski (CO 836th squadron), Maj Fulvio Tintary (CO 838th squadron), Maj Leo M. Burbridge (Station Adjutant), Maj Robert M. Currier (Executive Officer 419 Air Service Group), Maj Gene Shoemaker (Station Engineer Officer)
Back row L to R: Capt Edward W. Eaton (CO 669th Air Engineering Squadron), Capt Frank Milouc (CO 845 Air Material Squadron), Capt Irvin E. Toler (Director of Training), Capt Stephen H. Sherrill Jr. (Flight test pilot), Capt Sumner Shobel (Group Air Inspector), Capt Albert S. Hammer (Group Statistical Officer), Maj Aloysius J. Ganey (Group Navigator), Capt Don W. Loeffler (Assistant Operations Officer), Maj Alfred P. Filippone (Group Bombardier), Capt Thomas Womer (Assistant Operations Officer)
(Photo supplied by Elizabeth Alston, it also appears on page 300 of Ivo de Jong's book)


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