[Flight crew with Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft]

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Title

[Flight crew with Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft]

Description

Photograph of a U.S. Army Air Forces flight crew, including Paul Lewis Bowers (standing, third from left), with a Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft, circa 1944-1945. The aircraft's nose art depicts a woman in lingerie. Most of the crew are identified in the verso inscription.

Inscription on verso: "Back row, left to right: Engineer J. MacDonald, 1st pilot James Hobstetter, Nav. Paul Bowers, Co-pilot Ted Brooks, Bomb Harry Walters. Bottom Row: Tail gunner [blank], Belly gunner Bill Tucker, [illegible] Eng. Waist Gun Harry Finch, Radio man Marcoux. 1944. Basic crew that left U.S. in spring 44 for Guadacanal [Guadalcanal] So. Pac. with 13th Air Force."

Date

1944-1945 circa

Bibliographic Citation

The Lewis Paul Bowers World War II Collection/The Museum of Flight

Identifier

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2019-08-09_image_006_02