"B" Flight

Front row (L to R): Frank Carangelo, John Nedeau, Richard Wilham, Raymond Hargrove, Ben Williams, David Davis, Carl Danielson, Frank Hold, Paul Pennington and Ernest Dragon. Standing (L to R): George Mitchell, Victor McNew, Bruce Tapscott, Lamar "Joe" Blow, Herial "Speedy" Bledsoe, Charles Sokoll, Richard Jump, John Mroz, Jack Erle, and Merle Wilson. (submitted by Rob Jump, son of Dick Jump).

Some weeks after this picture was taken in 945, Lamar Blow was killed by a turning B-17 propeller. While running up the engines, he left his cockpit position via the forward escape hatch to assist an armament man in putting out an engine fire. Ben Williams had just left the plane to return to the engineers shack when the accident occurred.

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