Salvage of a broken B-24 "WE'REWOLVES", crashed on take-off crash on March 20th, at Panagarh. Upon crash, live bombs were spewed out of the bomb bay. Fortunately the arming pins were still in the fuses. Speculation of some was that the accident was caused by loss of lift due to the negative angle of attack caused by a high speed...

Salvage of a broken B-24 "WE'REWOLVES", crashed on take-off crash on March 20th, at Panagarh. Upon crash, live bombs were spewed out of the bomb bay. Fortunately the arming pins were still in the fuses. Speculation of some was that the accident was caused by loss of lift due to the negative angle of attack caused by a high speed...

Crew during training, at Smoky Hill Air Base, Salina, Kansas, November 1942. Rear: Russell F. Doman, Eduard Jean Charlet, unknown. Middle: Unknown, George P. Sibulski, Thomas L. Grady. Front (kneeling): Walter Kappel.

Pilot Edward "Two-Gun" McCoy posing with M1903 "Springfield" rifle in 1943 before his plane, B-24 WE'REWOLVES. His stance matches the image of him painted by Thomas Grady near the pilot's window, above him. (Thanks to John Olin for supplemental info about his grandfather "Two-Gun" McCoy!)

1st Lt. Frank P. Dwyer, ASN #O-1551389, MIA from the CBI. Lt. Dwyer was an ordnance officer for the eastern sector of the India-China Wing, Air Transport Command, and was lost on a flight that took off at 1:30am on June 14, 1944, for a flight from Chabua to Calcutta, India. Lt. Dwyer was one of 11 passengers (including one...

"The best crew in World War II!" McCoy's Crew at Gaya Air Base in 1943 (both images): Back row l to r: Thomas L. Grady, (Tail Gunner); Roy A. Whistle, (Radar); Russell F. Doman, (Engineer); Lester V. Bebout (Gunner); Sibulski (Gunner) Front: Earl Rambow (Navigator). John R. Miller (Co-Pilot), Edward L. McCoy (Pilot), Robert 'Mac' McIntosh (Bombardier) (Thanks John Olin...

KIA-MIA Memorial Project War so often requires a dear sacrifice - the loss of so many promising young people. Never does war only take away a soldier but also a son, brother, father, husband or best-friend. In battle many die of injuries, and they are listed at killed-in-action (KIA). Equally as tragic is the case of soldiers listed as missing-in-action...