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Staff Sergeant Stanley Pitakos. Flight Engineer / Top Turret Gunner, 458th Bomb Group. Stanley A. Pitakos Jr was Engineer/Top Turret Gunner on the John P. Roberts crew - 458th BG / 752nd BS.
Died 16 October 1958
American Air Museum

Willis Greaser. Pilot, 491st Bomb Group. 33 missions. American Campaign Medal/ WW II Victory Medal/ European Campaign Medal
Died 16 October 1989
American Air Museum

Colonel Preston Piper. Pilot, 385th Bomb Group. More than anything, he loved to fly. In high school in Santa Ana, he was part of a club that built a glider plane. I have home movies he made flying over the orange groves in Santa Ana, California in the mid
Died 16 October 1992
American Air Museum

Technical Sergeant Theodore Kellers. Top Turret Gunner, 96th Bomb Group. Shot down 20 October 1943 in B-17 #42-30372 'Shack Rabbit III. ' Evaded (EVD) from Belgium with the help of the Comet evasion network. Handed over by Comet to another line,
Died 16 October 1995
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Staff Sergeant James Grimmett. Military Occupation specialty 757-Radio Operator/Mechanic/Gunner, 384th Bomb Group. Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 #42-31211, RENO'S RAIDER. Prisoner of War (POW).
Died 16 October 1997
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Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) Julius Ramaika. Radio Operator, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 16 October 2009
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