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2nd Lt. Paul Capaccio

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2nd Lt Paul Capaccio P KIC 3-Feb-43
2nd Lt Jacob Madsen CP KIC 3-Feb-43
2nd Lt Latimer Stewert NAV KIC 3-Feb-43
S/Sgt Thaddeus Donlavage ROG KIC 3-Feb-43
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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