|
Douglas Aircraft Factory A-20 Technical Training Course
|
|
|
Douglas Aircraft Factory A-20 Technical Training Course
|
|
|
Fred Stemler, Douglas Aircraft Factory A-20 Technical Training Course
|
|
|
Tucumcari, NM Railroad siding, end of January 1943 as the group traveled from the Douglas Aircraft Factory in Santa Monica, CA (where they had received A-20 training) to Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma City to join the 416th which would soon be formed. Fred Stemler identified the group as "Joe, Stan, Fred & Sid". Based on the Douglas class photo, Joe is 2nd row, 2nd person; Stan is probably Stan Smolinski, top row, 16th person; Fred Stemler; and Sid is probably Sid Spillett, 3rd row, 18th person.
|
|
|
T/Sgt Frederick L. Stemler, Crew Chief 669th BS, A Flight
|
|
|
Red Cross Line for java and sinkers, Wethersfield, England, Spring 1944. Red Cross girl standing behind the Jeep is Jean Fitzsimmons.
|
|
|
A Flight 669th Sqdn at
Wethersfield, England 1944
Front row L to R
Mac, Proctor, O'Hare, Bailey, Anlauf
Rear
Frambers, Springer, Mullins, Stemler
Dirken, Hanes, Blanchard
Note: Red Cross Lady - Doughnut Day
|
|
|
A Flight 669th Sqdn at
Wethersfield, England 1944
Front row L to R
Mac, Proctor, O'Hare, Bailey, Anlauf
Rear
Frambers, Springer, Mullins, Stemler
Dirken, Hanes, Blanchard
Note: Red Cross Lady - Doughnut Day
|
|
|
Fred Stemler
|
|
|
Tom Melte's A-20K
|
|
|
A-20 With tool boxes used as shelter
|
|
|
A-20G-25-DO A/C S/N: 43-9181, Fuselage Code 2A-A, "Daddy Land's Commando" painted with D-Day Stripes
|
|
|
A-20G-25-DO A/C S/N: 43-9181, Fuselage Code 2A-A, "Daddy Land's Commando" painted with D-Day Stripes
|
|
|
The ordinance man who painted the plane was Merrill O'Neil (name is barely discernible on the nose art)
|
|
|
A-20G-25-DO A/C S/N: 43-9181, Fuselage Code 2A-A, "Daddy Land's Commando".
Arthur O'Hare preparing to remove blocks from the wheel
Names under the cockpit read:
LT. LAND [Lt. Willard H. Land, Pilot]
T/SGT. STEMLER, C.C. [T/Sgt Fredrick L. Stemler, Crew Chief]
S/SGT. ALDEN, ARM. [S/Sgt Sterling F. Alden, Armorer-Gunner]
S/SGT. BALLINGER, ENG. [S/Sgt Robert L. Ballinger, Engineer-Gunner]
|
|
|
Running and testing engines before a mission from England
Note Assistant Crew Chief O'Hare ready to remove blocks from wheels
A-20 Douglas Havoc
#181
Pilot W. Land
Wethersfield, England
May 1944
|
|
|
Daddy Land's Commando Ground Crew (L-R): T/Sgt Frederick L. Stemler, Crew Chief; S/Sgt Arthur G. O'Hare, S/Sgt Kenneth William Bailey
|
|
|
Fred Stemler (left), S/Sgt Kenneth William Bailey (right), A/C is Daddy Land's Commando
|
|
|
Fred Stemler
|
|
|
Fred Stemler in work clothes
|
|
|
Fred Stemler on his bicycle
|
|
|
L-R: "Dirk" Lawrence, "Goat" Lawrence, Zack Anlauf, "Rube" Hanes, all ground crew for Flight A, 669th BS, sitting on an Air Raid Shelter
|
|
|
Loading LST for trip to Melun, France. The jeep "Ruptured Duck" was used by the photo crew that analyzed the mission strike photos.
|
|
|
Fox hole at Melun, France, Oct. 29, 1944
|
|
|
A-26B-20-DL A/C S/N: 41-39232, Fuselage Code 2A-A
|
|
|
A-26B-20-DL A/C S/N: 41-39229, Fuselage Code 2A-B. S/Sgt Drexel Wells, Crew Chief
|
|
|
A-26 Cockpit, looking toward the nose
|
|
|
Fred Stemler and Tom Melte
|
|
|
Each pilot signed the log upon returning from a mission
|
|
|
Christmas Card (L-R): Kenneth Bailey, Arthur O'Hare, Fred Stemler
|
|
|
Horace Joyner with lead A-26C plane
|
|
|
Ray Hansen with lead A-26C plane
|
|
|
Robert R. Hanson
|
|
|
Merrill O'Neil - Ordinance, A/C is Tom Swift's Flying Machine
|
|
|
Merrill O'Neil - Ordinance (Rear)
|
|
|
Merrill O'Neil relaxing on bomb. Aircraft in the background is A-26B-15-DT, S/N 43-22354, Fuselage Code 2A-S, "Tom Swift's Flying Machine"
|
|
|
Washing A-26 plane
|
|
|
Pontoise, France after the war ended
|
|
|
Pontoise, France view of planes
|
|
|
Fred Stemler and Ray Hanson at Eiffel Tower
|
|
|
A-26B-15-DT A/C S/N: 43-22354, Fuselage Code 2A-S, "Tom Swift's Flying Machine" on display after V-E day under the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
|
|
|
A-26B-15-DT A/C S/N: 43-22354, Fuselage Code 2A-S, "Tom Swift.s Flying Machine" on display after V-E day under the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
|
|
|
|