Pre-Mission Activities & Briefing

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Pre-Mission Activities & Briefing

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Somewhere in England Air Crew Woken for D-Day Mission
Note: How close beds are together. Personal effects tied to end of bed. Cities they’ve hit painted on back wall. Shoes under bed. One man already smoking.

Charge of Quarters waking Crew for the Day’s Bombing Mission
Note: Not 44th BG

Kiel Mission Preparations

Airmen ready with mission gear

Airmen ready for mission with flying gear

Airmen waiting for the trucks to take them to their aircraft, early 1943

Crews getting ready before first Kiel Mission

Crews board trucks to their hardstands,

Back of 2.5 Ton Truck; Carl Hall, Ed Cisinski, Calvin Brown, Shipdham

AC 61-24282 Y Bar, 506th Squadron, Ruthless, Shipdham

Iron Corset having gas tanks filled for mission

68th Squadron A/C loaded with drop tanks

Airmen prepare for mission on hardstand

Tech Sgt. Booth cleans the glass on the tail turret plexiglas of "Three Kisses for Luck"

68th squadron airmen and ground crews stand around the landing gear of a B-24

Ursel Harvell talks with Tech Sgt Tewksbury before a mission
The pair stand before 42-50766 D, 506th Squadron

Crew of Lemondrop standing on their hardstand in flying clothes

"Sack Artist" parked on its hardstand before a mission
Aircrew surrounding at the start of a mission

Southern Comfort's crew huddled around the bomber

506th Squadron bomber "Ruthless" is prepared for mission

Aircrew stands in flying gear on hardstand beside B-24 - beside bombs on the grass

Bomber prepared for mission

Spagnola crew waits for takeoff on hardstand

Airmen in sheepskins on a hardstand in front of Lemondrop

Airman holds .50 caliber machine gun
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