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Crew of B-25H "Wabash Cannonball"

491st Bomb Squadron air crew at Yangkai, China, with the B-25H "Wabash Cannonball". In back are Lt. Jack H. Wilson (pilot) and Lt. Russell M. Howard (navigator), with S/Sgt Ira M. Brown (gunner; kneeling, far left), T/Sgt. Donald Gralla (radio) , and  S/Sgt Leonard J. Bendinsky (flight engineer).

491st Bomb Squadron air crew at Yangkai, China, with the B-25H "Wabash Cannonball". In back are Lt. Jack H. Wilson (pilot) and Lt. Russell M. Howard (navigator), with S/Sgt Ira M. Brown (gunner; kneeling, far left), T/Sgt. Donald Gralla (radio) , and  S/Sgt Leonard J. Bendinsky (flight engineer).

S/Sgt Ira M. Brown would be injured and spend time in hospital.

S/Sgt Leonard J. Bendinsky would be missing in action during the Korean war, and declared dead in 1954.

(Information provided by Tony Strotman)

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