B-24

Thomas Grady was a talented and curious young artist while in the CBI, and he drew a number of his observations, often capturing emotions or experiences vividly with his pencil. "My Office--tail gun, T. Grady, S/Sgt (all drawings made on the way home)."

Thomas Grady was a talented and curious young artist while in the CBI, and he drew a number of his observations, often capturing emotions or experiences vividly with his pencil. "Two-Gun McCoy--Cap't, pilot, at the controls."

Thomas Grady was a talented and curious young artist while in the CBI, and he drew a number of his observations, often capturing emotions or experiences vividly with his pencil. "Sgt. Sibulski (gunner), listening to radio on the way home."

Thomas Grady was a talented and curious young artist while in the CBI, and he drew a number of his observations, often capturing emotions or experiences vividly with his pencil. "Lt. Bawol sitting at the waist position of a B-24 (he was navigator he let someone else steer the plane home)."

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...

B-24 Nip Nipper in flight during WWII. (Image courtesy of Angela Keane via Alan Starcher.)

As tail gunner Sgt. Grady was able to see a collision on October 26, 1943, between B-24 "Boogie Woogie Bomb Buggy" and a Japanese Zero fighter, and his official statement was: "As Tail Gunner on the lead ship of the second element, I was in a good position to see the B-24 go down. I glanced at the B-24 in...

S/Sgt. Thomas Lonergan Grady, tail gunner in a B-24 in the CBI during WWII, February - December, 1943. A total of 48 missions flown. Also an artist, and witness to things good and things heartbreaking during the war. He was born in Boston on June 11, 1918, to attorney Frederic J. Grady and Eleanor C. (O'Brion) Grady. He was an...

"Ike" - Me - Erick --- "Three Shavetails" Crew posing with a B-24J and map. Given that Mazer is a just commissioned "shavetail" 2nd Lt, this image is early in his career, likely while in navigator training stateside (or just possibly enroute to the CBI). During WWII. Notice that the photographer or a censor has whited-out the plane serial number...

Crew with a B-24J. Given that Mazer is a just commissioned "shavetail" 2nd Lt, this image is early in his career, likely while in navigator training stateside (or just possibly enroute to the CBI). Notice that the photographer or a censor has whited-out the plane serial number and other info. Joe Considine, Skiles, Erickson, Eisenstat, Schumacher, Pete Abrogast, Zimmerman, Axtell...