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Update:
08
February 2015:
Thank you to Dave Paruti for notifying of us of his father's Final Flight.
21
February 2014:
The family of 2nd Lt Soloman Pritt notified us that he has taken his Final Flight.
05
October 2005:
Steve Garrison notified us of his great uncle Edgar Oaks
having taken his Final Flight.
29 October 2002:
Contact has been made with Soloman Pritt, Edgar Oaks and
Joseph Paruti. Paruti confirmed that Cpl Milton Jacobs,
their Tail Gunner, flew with Crew 16 on their 4 May 1945
mission in which 6 members of Crew 16 and Jacobs was lost.
Jacobs was filling in as temporary Tail Gunner after Crew
16's TG T/Sgt James R. Ogilvie, shot himself in the leg
when the .45 he was cleaning discharged. After Ogilvie
recovered from his wound and was discharged from the hosptial
- he flew as Replacement Crew 11's Tail Gunner.
03
February 2002:
Added first name of S/Sgt Edgar Oaks to roster. He and
his fellow crew members are listed on GO-5 dated July
19, 1945, Award of Air
Medal; 10 members of this crew are listed on these
orders - Cpl Milton Jacobs was not - however the American
Battle Monument Commission's War Dead database does show
he was awarded an Air Medal - which could be covered under
a different order. Previously only Oaks' last name was
known at the time the crew photo was added. Thanks to
John Essig, CFC, P-10
for providing a copy of GO-5.
21 October 2001:
Maurice Picheloup recalled this about the Handa Mission
"this was a case of checking Flight Engineer performance
and during the mission I helped in the cruise control
where most of his trouble problems exisited. We
had engine problems and had to land at Iwo Jima. |
