Updates:

Mar 2006 - 1st Lt James W. Frey added to Crew Honor Roll.

Feb 2006 - Corrected ranks per SO 148 dated 18 June 1945 Issued by HQ PAAF.

Nov 2005 - William Schreck contacted our web site and provided us with his POC; Made contact with Nicholas Livingston who provided us with POC for Herbert Verry.

The following came from Steve Smiesk, webmaster 330th BG (VH) web site during a conversation with 1st Lt John Dickerson, 457th BS, 330th BG:

"Late in June 1945, three crews of 8th Air Force 316th BW, 346th BS received orders to take off for the Marianas where they would fly with the 20th Air Force. The 314th BW needed replacement crews and they were to absorb experience which they could later pass on to their fellow crews. On 5 July 1945 'the 8th Air Force landed on Guam' They were the only crews of their 316th BW squadron to see combat."

Glenn Carmen, who has a web site honoring his father's unit (333rd BG, 316th BW), forwarded data from orders dated December 1944 Issued by Alamogordo Army Air Field listing this crew.

James W. Frey, Airplane Commander confirmed they were Replacement Crew 42. They flew approximately 9 missions including the last combat mission on 14/15 August to Isesaki.

Nicholas Livingston, Corpus Christi, TX; Herbert Verry, Radio Op, New Hampshire; and William Schreck, Sacramento, CA are the remaining members of the crew.

Slim II" pictured in the background was assigned to Crew 44, Capt Carroll Payne, AC; according to 1st Lt Charles A. Smith, Radar Observer - "Payne returned to Guam in time to participate in the flyover of the Missouri during the surrender ceremony. The rest of us returned to the States from Oahu". Frey mentions that while they only flew 9 missions all believes all were flown in "Slim II"