Hello All,


Since evryone is re connecting this old valiant crew My Uncle George Lawley of
Maine was at Lavenham for about 2 years

He was a Navigator who spent most of his time training crews on nav etc

Anyone out there know the name or his old mates or perhaps ID in a crew or base
Photo


It would make his son 7 grand son quite proud.

Best

Dan Viles
Retired USAF & Army Guard
E-6
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Webber
To: wwii487thbombgroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 4:17 PM
Subject: [WWII 487th Bomb Group] Re: 28 June 2009





Hello Charles,

I have some information about your cousin
Robert L. Wasson. He was copilot on the
Joseph P. Willis crew, 838th Bomb Squadron,
and went missing in action on 29 May 1944
after B-24H 42-52577 was hit by flak and
exploded over the Baltic Sea. Navigator Edgar
A. Grabhorn was the only survivor on the crew
that day. Grabhorn's account of the shoot-
down is in "The History of the 487th Bomb
Group" by Ivo de Jong. I have Mr. Grabhorn's
contact information, and spoke to him in
May 2009. Please write to me at:
pwebber@...
I will send you what I have.

Regards,
Paul Webber
Colorado Springs, CO

--- In wwii487thbombgroup@yahoogroups.com, "cdjoesten" <cdjoesten@...> wrote:
>
> Mike-
>
> It is a small world indeed. My distant cousin was on that plane as co-pilot,
Robert L. Wasson. I have been researching this flight going on a year or so but
have had little progress lately. As luck would have it, thankfully the sole
survivor (Crabhorn) is living in NH but I have yet to manage to contact him. If
you would like to coordinate on this research, I think it would be a great
project. Contact me at cdjoesten@... and we will go from there. Also, I am
headed to UK for vacation in August and plan to visit Canbridge and Lavenham.
>
> Charles
>
>
> --- In wwii487thbombgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Opitz" <Da_michael_O@>
wrote:
> >
> > He already is up there Joseph P Willis, he and his crew were lost at sea
on May,24 the 1944
> > http://www.487thbg.org/Photos/WillisJP.shtml
> > and he was 838 sqd. sorry for the typo
> >
> >
> > -- In wwii487thbombgroup@yahoogroups.com, Larry & SallyAnn McChesney
<mcchesney1950@> wrote:
> > >
> > > You might want to add your great uncle's name to the KIA/MIA listing on
the 487th site. It would be a nice memorial and he'd be in wonderful, proud
company. I recently ordered my Dad and Mom's headstone marker and over my Dad's
name I am having a B-17G with the "P" for the 839th Squadron engraved. Dad
arrived in England on 4 July 1944.
> > > --- On Sun, 6/28/09, Mike Opitz <Da_michael_O@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > From: Mike Opitz <Da_michael_O@>
> > > Subject: [WWII 487th Bomb Group] Re: 28 June 2009
> > > To: wwii487thbombgroup@yahoogroups.com
> > > Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009, 11:27 AM
> > >
> > >
> > > my great uncle was in the 487th he was killed on the return trip from
Poliz Germany. He was 383sqd flying B-24s
> > > http://www.487thbg.org/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In wwii487thbombgroup@yahoogroups.com, "mcchesney1950@"
<mcchesney1950@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The search for my Dad's crew and B-17G has been on-going for over 15
years. Ivo has been instrumental in locating the names of Dad's cremembers, but
unfortunately there was no available information on my Dad's pilot, Raymond
Dorman. However, a few weeks ago when I started "googling" Ray's name, I finally
found a match on Classmates.com. Raymond was listed as having been a member of
the 839th Bomb Squadron, 487th Bomb Group and stationed at Lavenham, England,
during WWII. Although I still have not received a reply from the author of the
listing, I am and will remain hopeful.
> > > >
> > > > I am also grateful for the re-print of the "History of the 487th".
Those of us left behind by our Army Air Force heroes have a printed keepsake of
the lives lived and lost by the gallant members of the Mighty 8th, 487th
BombGroup.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> >
>






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