Oregon Chapter
8th Air Force
Historical Society
Preserving the history of the Mighty 8th
306th BG (H) Crew Photos
B-17 Squadrons 367, 368, 369, & 423
306th BG (H) crew photos (B-17, 1st Combat Wing later 1st Air Division) 1942-1945.
Robert Riordan crew of the 369th Squadron 306th BG(H) with King George
VI at their airbase in England. Above is as it appears in the
book.
The same image of Riordan and England's King George VI after spending
5 MINUTES in a digital image program running through some clean-up
filters.
This is broken up into multiple PDF files arranged just like the book by PIC (Pilot in Command). A crew was always referred to based upon the pilot's last name.
PDFs 1 to 9 includes from 6 to 10 crews per PDF, PDFs starting with #10 onwards are grouped in batches of 20 crews per PDF in 10 page groups. PDF sizes range from 1 to 3 Megs and all images are at 72 DPI for web viewing. Original high resolution PDFs (scanned at 300 DPI) can be ordered from the Chapter Secretary for $10.
Two thirds of the way through the book (in the PDF #15) it restarts again with crew names from the beginning of the alphabet.
- Part 01 Book cover and intro of the book which was compiled by Russell A. Strong
- Part 02 Crews Milton M Adam to Paul Bailey
- Part 03 Crews Clifford Baxter to Irving Dudley
- Part 04 Crews Lowell Burgess to William J Casey
- Part 05 Crews William P Cassidy to Robert Davenport
- Part 06 Crews John Curtis to Lester Evans
- Part 07 Crews David Farrell to Harold Hennessy
- Part 08 Crews Shelby D Hodges to Imaneul Klette
- Part 09 Crews Frank I Krzyston to Louis F Matichka
- Part 10 Crews Harold Mattson to Curtis Oakes
- Part 11 Crews John P Nowak to David Ramsey
- Part 12 Crews Perry Raster to Edward Sandini
- Part 13 Crews Earl Schafter to Emmitt Sutherland
- Part 14 Crews William Sutton to Wilbur Welland
- Part 15 Crews Robert Welter to Purvis Youree restarts with William Baker to John Colin
- Part 16 Crews Joesph Couris to Edgar R Smith
- Part 17 Crews Robert H Smith to Lawrence Marks
- Part 18 Crews Albert Switzer to John Regan
- Part 19 Alphabetical listing by last name of all crews with photos of the B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 306th BG (H)
- Part 20 Alphabetical listing of combat crews without known photographs and the back cover photo of the group in formation.
- Part 21 Supplement - crew photos, crew info, discovered or sent to the chapter
306 Bombardment Group Other Information
Debriefing notes from Lt Howard Roth after the Ruhland mission.