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Press Telegram April 12 1945

The Boston Globe Jan 29 1944

I present to you my latest commissioned pencil drawing. Boeing B-17F 42-3233 "Our Baby". 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group. The scene shows the last moments of this Flying Fortress returning from a bombing raid on Bremen on 8/10/1943. The entire crew survived (11 Prisoner of War): 1st Lt Bernard A. De Marco Major Gale W. "Buck" Cleven F/O James P. Thayer 1st Lt John W. Downs 2nd Lt Francis C. Harper T/Sgt Benjamin J. Barr Cpl Jerome E. Ferroggiaro Cpl Thornton Stringfellow S/Sgt William J. Williams S/Sgt Harry C. Calhoun William R. Woodbury. I have no knowledge of the exact damage to the plane, I relied on information found on the Internet and on my artistic vision of the scene presented.

Scott Nelsons Painting of Our Baby going down with Gale Cleven and Bernie DeMarco

Our Baby description plate

Bombardier on Paul Spurgeon Crew. Photo courtesy of Jim Todd

Happy go Lucky, 337882

Lt Lautenschlager Crew Stateside training. Shot down on Berlin Mission March 6, 1944.

Lt. Kenneth Lorch (courtesy of the Lorch family)

The Claremore Progress Sept 13 1944