• Vernon Wayne Hibbs
  • Vernon Wayne Hibbs
  • Crew #059-R3 | Pilot: Steele
    Not your typical crew photo....

    L-R:

    Chester A Olenik - Radio Operator
    Legrand G Steele - Pilot
    Kenneth L Orndorff - Gunner
    Fred C Hudlow - Co Pilot
    Peter G Duin - Gunner
    James M Hutchinson - Gunner
    Maurice B Dunn - Navigator
    Arthur C Jenson - Gunner
    Vernon W "Rusty" Hibbs - Engineer


    Source: Andrew Dunn - Son of Maurice Dunn
  • Crew #790th-008 | Pilot: Steele preparing to depart Rackheath
    Aircraft of the 467th preparing to Return to the one of Interior (RZI). Crew #8 of the 790th BS in the foreground with 44-10552

    Source: Andrew Dunn, son of Maurice B Dunn
  • Back home in the USA at BRadley Field, CT
    "Bradley Field Connecticut, about ten minutes after we landed in the U.S.A. The temperature was about 100 degrees. It was about 6:00 pm. The plane is the one we flew back, the same one I sent you a picture of not long ago. I'm not in the picture"

    Maurice B "Pinky" Dunn

    Source: Andrew Dunn, son of Maurice B Dunn
  • Mission #218 - 1st Flight of 3rd Squadron
    Pictured is the 3rd Section/Squadron, 1st (Lead) Flight. The photo taken from 42-95224 ‘Lonely Heart’ (flown by John T Cockrell and crew #052-R3) in a position that seems to have been started later in the war which is “high left” of the regular Section positions.

    Visible in the foreground is 42-52534 ‘Witchcraft (flown by James Watson McFarland and crew #073-R1) in the #3 position.

    The far left ship is 44-48820 ‘Lucky ‘Leven (Always a Winner)’ (flown by Edward Theodore Holum and crew #088-R2) in the 1st ‘Lead’ position

    The ship just behind and above is 44-10552 (flown by Robert Anthony Meyers and crew #062-R3) in the #2 ‘Deputy Lead’ position

    Pictured just above ‘Witchcraft’ is 44-50482 (flown by Legrand Guild Steele and crew #059-R3) in the #4 position.

    Just above and behind ‘482’ is 42-110171 ‘The Prowler’ (flown by Oscar Luther Leathers and crew #074-R0) in the #5 position

    Finally, just coming into view to the right is 44-10596 ‘Rheinmachen’ (flown by James Gerald Coffey and crew #056-R4) in the #6 position.

    Crew on ‘Lonely Heart’ was -

    John T Cockrell - Pilot
    Arthur Horovitz - Co Pilot
    George Albert Bunch - Navigator
    Roy Ronald Christian - Toggler
    Albert Neil Coppedge - Engineer
    Thomas Joseph McLaughlin - Radio Operator


    Crew on ‘Witchcraft’ was -

    James Watson McFarland - Pilot
    Steve Joseph Maznio - Co Pilot
    Joseph George Dzenowagis - Navigator
    Edgar Sutton Collins - Toggler
    Don Clifford Fields - Engineer
    Robert E Lee Held - Radio Operator


    Crew on ‘Lucky ‘Leven’ was -

    Edward Theodore Holum - Pilot
    Morris Lee Davidson - Co Pilot
    Arthur Newton Gentry - Navigator
    Frank Panetta - Pilotage Navigator
    Willard Joseph Overlock - Bombardier
    James Joseph Kish - Mickey Operator
    Richard Jerome Muffoletto - Engineer
    Alexander Kaiwi - Radio Operator
    Lyle Dwaine Waite - Right Waist Gunner
    Raymond Alton Swanson - Tail Turret Gunner



    Crew on ‘552’ was -

    Robert Anthony Meyers - Pilot
    Caswell Fincher Neal - Co Pilot
    Henry Junior Storey - Navigator
    Geoffrey Gibson Gregory - Bombardier
    Leroy Wayne Reynolds - Toggler
    James B Wilson - Engineer
    James N Hunt - Radio Operator


    Crew on ‘482’ was -

    Legrand Guild Steele - Pilot
    Fred Cecil Hudlow - Co Pilot
    Maurice Beaty Dunn - Navigator
    Kenneth Lee Orndorff - Toggler
    Vernon Wayne Hibbs - Engineer
    Chester A Olenik - Radio Operator


    Crew on ‘The Prowler’ was -

    Oscar Luther Leathers - Pilot
    Lorain Darell Johns - Co Pilot
    Robert Leonard Dotts - Navigator
    Charles William Mohrman - Toggler
    Robert Rothchild - Engineer
    Paul B MacDonald - Radio Operator


    Crew on ‘Rheinmachen’ was -

    James Gerald Coffey - Pilot
    Harmon Joseph Small - Co Pilot
    Albert Anthony Muller - Navigator
    Robert Leon Miller - Toggler
    Horace Ellis Halpin - RCM Operator
    Anthony Debiasse - Engineer
    Donald Joseph Faford - Radio Operator



    Source: 467th BGA Archives