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2nd Lt. Truman Hermansen

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Truman Hermansen Crew (left to right)
Standing: J. Brian (B), T. Hermansen (P), C. Sellon (CP), H. Griffis (N) is not pictured.
Kneeling: H. Dorr (TG), E. Dihlmann (R), J. Madden (WG), R. LaRue (WG), W. Palmer (BT), B. Hyatt (E)

This photo was taken at Alconbury, 482nd BG after the crew was transferred there to become a Pathfinder Crew.
 Photo courtesy of Sgt Burke Hyatt.
 

2nd Lt Truman Hermansen P --
2nd Lt Clifford W. Sellon CP --
2nd Lt Henry C. Griffis NAV EVA
2nd Lt Jerry E. Brian BOM --
S/Sgt George A. Keller TTE --
Sgt Emil Dihlmann BOM --
Sgt Robert N. LaRue BTG --
S/Sgt James D. Madden WG --
Sgt Harold R. Dorr WG --
Sgt Burke D. Hyatt TG --

350th Sqdn... Crew, as above, joined the 100th Group on 28/11/43.

After 13 missions this crew was transferred to the 482nd as a Pathfinder crew. They continued at Alconbury until 29 May 45 when all came back to the states together. Griffis was shot down over lowlands of Holland and escaped the Germans through the help of patriots who hid him in a room above an inn until liberated by the Allies. He returned to Thorpe Abbotts for a short time before being returned to the States as was the practice for evadees or escaping airmen.

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