84th Planes, Pilots, and Crews
Above Photo Courtesy of Paul Patist
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mismarked as the 82nd
Lt Ross Orr June 44, 1 month before he was KIA
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Lt John Murphy "Just Hang'en Around" Note checkerboard around window
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WZ-Z Lt. Col. Eugene Roberts Spokane Chief
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Above & Below Capt Julius Maxwell "War Eagle"
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416243 - Possibly Captain George Hays "Pappy"
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PULLING PROP THRU -Preparatory to starting engine of P-47 Thunderbolt piloted
by Capt. Quince L. Brown, leading fighter pilo twith 13 kills to his credit, Crew Chief
T/Sgt Bill C. Jensen of Superior, Neb., (left) and Asst. Crew Chief Cpl. Thomas W.
Stoker of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, pull thru prop by hand in order to clear oil from
cylinders.
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Above: Possibly Quince Brown's Ground Crew
Below: Unknown crewman in Quince Brown's P-47
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PHOTO COURTESY OF NATHAN HOWLAND
PHOTO COURTESY OF NATHAN HOWLAND
PHOTO COURTESY OF NATHAN HOWLAND
PHOTO COURTESY OF NATHAN HOWLAND
PHOTO COURTESY OF NATHAN HOWLAND
Lt. W.S. Blodgett and crew
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Lt. Dwight G. Belt's "Lady Helen" 42-25690 P-47D
Unk Crew Member in cockpit
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Screamin Demon , Lt Alfred Garback's P-51 44-63779, a replacement for
his original Screamin Demon lost 20 Feb 45 with Lt. Marle Brendle
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84th ground crew, Sgt. Henry Pihl on the wing far right
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PHOTO COURTESY OF RICK PIHL
PHOTO COURTESY OF RICK PIHL
L to R standing:
Capt. Jack Price, Capt. John Irwin, Capt. Harold Stump
Major Eugene Roberts at desk
notice P-47 model at left side of desk
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Unknown Sgt. in Quince Brown's "Okie"
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44-72203 P-51D 84 WZ-S Lt. Thomas V Thain
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Lt. Col. Samuel Stephenson
79th Sv Grp.
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Lt. Peter Pompetti's WZ-R 41-6393 "Axe the Axis"
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Lt. Paul Ostrander 's Porcelain Pillbox
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S/Sgt. Henry Pihl -Center
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PHOTO COURTESY OF RICK PIHL
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PHOTO COURTESY OF RICK PIHL
PHOTO COURTESY OF RICK PIHL
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WZ-N 44-72178 FLOWN BY LT. ROY D HIGGINS KILLED IN
ACTION MARCH 1 1945 THIS AIRCRAFT
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Captain Earl Stier 44-63187
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Lt. Roy Wendell's "Isabel" 41-6223 WZ-F Lost in this a/c March 13 1944
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Lt. Clark W Clemons' "Frances Dell" WZ-W 44-72927
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Sgt. Melvin C. Swick - 819th Air Engineering Sq.
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Above and Below - Lt. Col. Eugene P Roberts' "Spokane Chief" WZ-Z 41-6630
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"Little Friends over the Channel" Photo taken from a 388th Bomb Group plane.
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