Re: 2Lt James B Prevost Crew - 458th BG

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Comments:: : Looking for crewmembers of the Prevost crew, 755th Squadron 458th Bomb Group. They were assigned on July 10, 1944. On August 5, 1944 the crew flew their eighth mission to Brunswick and ended up ditching in the Channel (MACR 8675). The aircraft they were flying on this date was B-24H-15-CF 41-29359 J3 J named TAILWIND. The co-pilot, F/O Allen Boorse, Jr. was killed. The rest of the crew was picked up and it is assumed that they completed their combat tour. I know of at last two co-pilots who filled in on subsequent missions: 1Lt Allen S. Gross and 2Lt Eugene D. O’Donnell. : : 2Lt James B. Prevost – Pilot : : F/O Allen Boorse, Jr – Co-pilot (KIA) : : F/O Astor Perry – Navigator : : F/O Robert F. Kearney – Bombardier : : Sgt Henry C. Howard – Radio Operator : : Sgt James C. Quillen – Flight Engineer : : Sgt Raymond C. Barto – Ball Turret Gunner : : Sgt Benjamin W. Dankosky – Waist Gunner : : Sgt John C. Colbert – Waist Gunner : : Sgt George E. Streeter – Tail Gunner : : Any help would be most appreciated. : : Thanks very much. : Ben Dankosky was my father; he passed a way a few years ago. Please contact me at my email or CP 478-951-2242 in the evenings; I'd very much like to talk with you.

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