A Flight Ground Crew, 832nd.

Second from the right is SSGT Harold Love, third from the right is SGT Aubry Fisher. They are also in the picture of Lt. Clouds crew. Harold was a civilian mechanic at Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) prior to the war. He spent time at Blythe California in a training squadron and almost missed the war entirely. While assigned to the training squadron he became the commanders crew chief on AT/17 (UC-78's) built by Cessna. Post war he returned to WPAFB and went back to work on the flight line as a mechanic. Eventually he became a government employee in procurement for the USAF. Harold and Aubry stayed friends until Harold's death in 1982. (Courtesy of Shane Alexander, grandson of Harold Love)

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