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1943

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A B-24 bomber crew was killed while flying on March 26, 1943. The plane he was on crash on take off on a combat mission. Eight of the nine people on that flight died, with S/Sgt. Harvey Cook was the sole survivor. He was flight engineer on that flight. Photo taken in India. Shortly after returning stateside, Sgt. Cook was...