384th Bombardment Group (Heavy) in World War II

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Larkin Durdin Crew

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Larkin Durdin crew.
Back row, left to right: 2nd Lt. Durdin, Larkin Clayton (Pilot), 2nd Lt. Carlson, Walter Elmer (Co-pilot), Radtke, Don (not a Durdin crew member in the 384th, but there was a navigator I found on the American Air Museum website named Don Radtke with the 486th BG, 833rd BS), 2nd Lt. Stearns, Robert Sumner (Bombardier)
Front row, left to right: S/SGT. Randall, Frank Abbott (Engineer/Top Turret Gunner), SGT. Ellis, Clayton John (Radio Operator/Gunner), SGT. Eltzroth, Porter J (IO) (Flexible Gunner), SGT. Thulin, Theodore Clemence (Flexible Gunner), SGT. Morris, Edward Paul (Ball Turret Gunner), SGT. Hammond, Ralph Clark, Jr (Tail Gunner)
Description on reverse written by Robert Sumner Stearns: "This is the gang. We looked this way when we finished at Avon Park."
Photo contributed by Robert Stearns family members Kathy Stearns Anderson and Maradee Stearns, 2023.
Photo uploaded by Cindy Farrar Bryan, 2023.

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