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| Lt. Ernest Boehner Photo courtesy of Kelly McNichols |








| (Wing) L Dicks, L Hosford, H Beck, H Slater, M Capp, G Lundigan, W Young, W VanDyk, C DeWitt, H Kinsolving; (standing) W Guil;foyle, R, Miller, C Dewitt (repeat), B Watkins, R Boekman, Levi Smith , Col. Frederick C Gray (CO 78th FG), Ben Mayo (CO 82nd FS), M Woller, R Wilkenson, R Bosworth, R Wolfe, W Brown, J Fitzgerald, H Shope, R Bosworth (repeat) Courtesy of Jane Bonny, Daughter of Lt. Levi Smith |
| Above 3 photos Lt. Levi W. Smith Those photos and one below are courtesy of his daughter Jane Bonny |
| Another look at the same picture |






| Lt Larry Nelson (Above ) MX-L The Fighting Falcon (Below) MX-T Heavenly Body |


| T/Sgt Ray Shepard in Lt. Roes's MX-Z Miss Pam |




















| MX-D escorting B-17's September 6 1944 |










| Major Richard Hewitt's Big Dick MX-U |

| Lt. Robert Spaulding - Sgt. John Sassaman - Unk P-47C 41-6380 MX-G "Ranny Mark II" |

| Captain Robert Adamina MX-A |





| Possibly Lt. Walter Bourque MX-T "Heavenly Body" |
| Sgts Ray Shepard and Tauno Koski |
| Sgts Osmo Tahja and Ray Shepard |




| A FLIGHT Back: Deyoe, Costelnick, Burnham, McKean, Bassett, Franke and Trickey. Front: Wilson, R.C., Baker, A.J., Barter, Zachary, Lindemuth and Rex. Photo courtesy of Janet Bell |
| B Flight Back: Asure, Cooper, Smith, L.E., Burnevik, Kolenic, Morley. Front: Zane Adams, Ashby, Swenson, Huelfall(?), Hink and Burkey. Photo courtesy of Janet Bell |
| C Flight Back: Kovacevich, Tudor, LeMasters, Koski, Bennett, Smith, C.V. and Blowers. Front: Gerhardt, Christensen, Walker, Christopher, Stover, Bevis (?) and Gillen Photo courtesy of Janet Bell |
| D Flight Back: Shepard, Sumner, Sandive(?), Jimenez, Doloway, Boase and Egan Front: Schmidt, Ben Wilson, Whitaker, Frazer and Cannon Photo courtesy of Janet Bell |

| S/Sgt Eugene Carter and Lt. Dixie Jackson |