384th Bombardment Group (Heavy) in World War II

[b]Buslee Crew Photo ID[/b] Crew photo, back row, left to right:
• Lt. John Oliver Buslee, Pilot, from Park Ridge, Illinois
• Lt. David Franklin Albrecht, Co-Pilot, from Chico, California
• Lt. Chester A. Rybarczyk, Navigator, from Toledo, Ohio
• Lt. James B. Davis, Bombardier, from New Castle, Indiana

Crew photo, front row, left to right:
• Sgt. Erwin V. Foster, Ball Turret Gunner, from Elmira, New York
• Sgt. Sebastiano Joseph Peluso, Radio Operator/Gunner, from Brooklyn, New York
• Sgt. Lenard Leroy Bryant, Waist Gunner, from Lubbock, Texas
• Sgt. Clarence B. Seeley, Engineer/Top Turret Gunner, from Nebraska
• Sgt. Eugene D. Lucynski, Tail Gunner, from Detroit, Michigan
• Sgt. George Edwin Farrar, Waist Gunner, from Atlanta, Georgia, (my dad)

Notes:
1. The Buslee crew departed the US on July 1, 1944. They were stationed with the 544th Bombardment Squadron of the 8th Air Force at the Grafton Underwood airfield.
2. The orginal Buslee crew's bombardier was Lt. Marvin B. Fryden, who was killed on the crew's second mission on August 5, 1944. The photo must have been taken after Lt. James B. Davis replaced Fryden on the crew.
3. The crew must have trained together in the US as a crew of ten, but by the time they saw action, the B-17 crews were made up of only nine men. One Waist Gunner manned both waist gunner stations and was called a Flexible Gunner. As a result, this crew of ten never all served on the same mission together.

[b]Simulated B-17 Accident[/b] Frted Preller and Dave Lustig discuss a 384th accident.
Note the Model B-17's.

[b]Norfolk Hospitality Room[/b] Hedwig and Dave Lustig with Fred Preller.
Keith Ellefson's Stained Glass Triangle P in front of them.

[b]Panel Picture with vets minus Jack Goetz[/b] Peter Bieiskis, Hank Sienkiewicz, Persident Len Estrin, Bill Wilkens and David Lustig

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