Photograph

File — Box: 3922.001, Folder: 2

Portrait of some of the men from 467th Army Air Forces Bombardment Group

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The diary was used by Emmett Dendy, a gunner with the Eighth Air Force's 467th Bomb Group flying B-24s, to record his 22 air missions, from 24 February to 25 April 1945. Each entry includes information about the target, bomb load, bomb run, flak, time, gas, and altitude. He also included remarks concerning each mission. The diary also includes names and addresses of other soldiers, presumably other members of his crew. In May 2010, Dendy added an additional mission - an Honor Flight for WWII veterans to the new WWII Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. There is also a photograph of a group of men in front of a building; none of the men are identified by name, only by position (gunner, nose gunner, pilot, bombadier, etc.)

Dendy was also featured in Delbert Reed's book, When Winning Was Everything; a photocopy of the chapter is included in the collection.

Dates

Creation: 1943-2010
Creation: Majority of material found in 1945 - 1945

Creator

From the Collection: Dendy, Emmett (Person)

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