| NAME | TP | - | M# | SER | - | BLK | - | MF | SERIAL # |
AF |
BG |
BS |
SC | RCL/# | V#-P | PHOTO CREDITS |
EASY MAID |
B |
- |
24 |
L | - |
15 | - |
FO |
44-49914 |
15 |
465 |
782 |
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V |
01-3 |
FREEMAN L. SMITH |
Contributor - Brian
F. Smith
Shown with my Father, Freeman L. Smith (Waist Gunner), kneeling lower left.
| Standing (L-R) Chick Gemmato - Pilot Norman R. Stickney - Co-Pilot Larry Smith - Navigator Bill Snow - Eng/Top Turret Gunner |
Kneeling (L-R) Freeman L. Smith - Waist Gunner John Martin - Waist Gunner Lenny Day - Ball Turret Gunner Ike Eisenbaum - Nose Gunner Bob Linsley - Tail Gunner |
Info Contributor - Norman R. Stickney
(Co-Pilot)
I served with Lt. Gemmato's crew on both
NO LOVE NO NOTHIN' (42-52533) & EASY MAID. EASY MAID was a new plane (1st mission) and we were shot down over
Linz, Austria 25 Apr 45 (MACR 13967), on what I understand was the last mission of the war. I was one of the wounded and
had a leg amputated in a German hospital. We also made a forced landing on the island of Vis in the Adriatic. Plane had so many shrapnel hits
that it was beyond repair. Lt. Joe McGovern landed right after us. We also had to bail out over German territory in Yugoslavia and were picked up by Partisans. I had
the occasion to meet Marshal Tito's chief of staff and was even asked to go on night patrols by the Partisans.
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