Authors: Lee Trimble
Beyond the Call (38 page)
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1. Lieutenant Robert M. Trimble (standing, second from left) and crew pose with their B-24 Liberator
Rum Runner
at Debach, Suffolk, on the day of their first combat mission, 6 July 1944. The mission was to bomb a V-1 flying bomb storage site in France. Crew (l-r standing): Lt Warren Johnson; Trimble; Lt Walter Hvischuk; Lt Raymond Joseph; Sgt Joe Sarina; (l-r squatting) Sgt Julio âChico' Mendez; Sgt Gale D. Moore; Sgt Alton R. Stafford; Sgt Horace Grady Hendricks; Sgt George Di Ieso.
(G. Moore)
2. Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses in formation.
(US Air Force)
3. Headquarters of 493rd Bomb Group, Debach, January 1945.
(US Air Force)
4. Diplomatic passport no. 2242 issued to Captain Robert M. Trimble, 22 January 1945: photo page.
(Lee Trimble)
5. Diplomatic passport no. 2242 issued to Captain Robert M. Trimble, 22 January 1945: page 3, identifying the bearer as âUnited States Government Official'.
(Lee Trimble)
6. Diplomatic passport no. 2242 issued to Captain Robert M. Trimble, 22 January 1945: page 6, listing destination as âUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics and necessary Countries en route'.
(Lee Trimble)
7. Douglas C-47 Skytrains.
(US Air Force)
8. Curtiss C-46 Commando.
(US Air Force)
9. The only known photo taken during the Luftwaffe raid on Poltava on the night of 21/22 June 1944.
(US Air Force)
10. Colonel Thomas K. Hampton at Poltava, winter 1944/5.
(US Air Force)
11. Colonel Thomas K. Hampton (right) with Major Michael H. Kowal (center) and Soviet General Perminov.
(Kaluta family)
12. Major General Edmund W. Hill (left), unidentified British officer, and US Ambassador W. Averell Harriman during stopover at Poltava en route to Yalta Conference, February 1945.
(Kaluta family)
13. Sgt Arnold Echola (left) and Lt Arnold A. Tillman at Poltava, February 1945.
(Lt Tillman Collection, Texas Military Forces Museum via W. MacLeod)
