Back Row (viewer's left to right):

  1. 2nd Lt. Vernon H. "Shorty" Berry, Bombardier
  2. 2nd Lt. Kenneth Andrews, Navigator
  3. 2nd Lt. Robert L. Gieryn, Pilot
  4. 2nd Lt. Phillip R. Swan, Jr., Co-Pilot

Front Row (viewer's left to right):

  1. T/Sgt. William A. "Jeff" Jeffords, Engineer/Top Turret
  2. Sgt. Frank M. "Buzz" Thomson, Jr., Tail Gunner
  3. S/Sgt. Raymond L. Winslow, Asst Eng/Waist
  4. Sgt. Richard F. Knerr, Ball Turret Gunner
  5. S/Sgt. WIlliam K. Isch, Radio Operator
  6. S/Sgt. Joseph M. Krizan, Togglier

Comments:

  1. Training Photo
  2. B-17-G aircraft in photo: 'PI'
  3. Photo Date: On or shortly before January 18, 1945
  4. Photo Location: MacDill AAB, Tampa, Florida
  5. Ranks are not as of time of photo, they are as of April 1945.
  6. 2nd Lt. Vernon Berry trained with the Gieryn Crew as a bombardier., he then remained in the States as an instructor.
  7. Photo Reference: Gieryn Training
  8. Information compiled by the 398th BGMA Web Team with big thanks to Amy Thomson, daughter of Frank M. Thomson, for providing her Dad's crew photo. Also thanks to Russell Becker, husband of Joe Krizan's niece, for providing the photo date and location, and for confirming Lt. Vernon Berry's first name.
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