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2nd Lt |
Paul Capaccio |
P |
KIC |
3-Feb-43 |
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2nd Lt |
Jacob Madsen |
CP |
KIC |
3-Feb-43 |
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2nd Lt |
Latimer Stewert |
NAV |
KIC |
3-Feb-43 |
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S/Sgt |
Thaddeus Donlavage |
ROG |
KIC |
3-Feb-43 |
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S/Sgt |
Frank Culver |
TTE |
KIC |
3-Feb-43 |
350th Sqdn.
From They
Never Had it so Good by Jack W. Sheridan.. p.21 "Among the crews that had
left Sioux City to put in the extra time at the dispersed bases was one of
the original crews that had come to us at Wendover. It was Lt. Paul
Capaccio's crew with Lt. Jacob Madsen, and Flight Officer Latimer Stewert.
They had gone to Casper, Wyoming. On the same day we got to Kearney they
received orders to fly with a skeleton crew to Kansas. Capaccio and Madsen
had the controls with Stewart and two of their enlisted men with them,
Staff Sergeants Thaddeus Donlavage and Frank Culver. No one ever quite
knew what happened. Somehow, as the plane neared Bogue, Kansas, something
happened. The big Fort arced out of the flat skies to bury itself in the
middle of a corn field. All five were killed outright." |
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