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463rd Bombardment Group Crew Photos
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Top L-R:  Art Mendelsohn (radio);   Unidentified Navigator; Bertil Landstrom (pilot); Winfred Ford, Jr. (co-pilot); Henry Portman (bombardier)

Bottom L-R: Arthur Wiebe (top turret/eng); Robert King (waist); LaVern Aleckson (tail); Charles Stearns (ball turret); Howard Avery (waist)
 

Photo courtesy of Art Mendelsohn Jr., Son of Art Mendelsohn Sr., 774th
 

Back: L-R: Art Wiebe, Henry Portman, Bertil Landstrom, Winfield Ford, Lester Lewis

Front: L-R: Laverne Aleckson, Robert King, Arthur Mendelsohn, Charlie Stearns, Howard Avery
 

Taken at MacDill Field, Tampa, FL, Aug. 1944, Courtesy of Howard Avery

463rd Bomb Group Historical Society
P.O. Box 11045
Santa Ana, Ca. 92711
SwooseGroup@463rd.org