While doing some online searching, I found this picture of my grandfather Earl Richardson's bomb squadron. He is the man in the back row all the way on the left. His plane was shot down on March 6, 1944. Consequently, he spent 14 months as a POW at Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany. I have asked my dad to help me locate the file (currently lost on my former hard drive) of his memories that he wrote down from his plane crash, capture, and liberation from the camp. On this site, he is quoted in a letter as saying that he was "flying as a replacement for D. Berthlof...who was ill with a sinus infection."
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