Help locating WWII USAAF veteran

eagl

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Help locating WWII USAAF veteran - B-17 pilot

« on: November 10, 2008, 08:24:09 PM »

Hi all,

Here is a request from someone trying to locate a WWII veteran who flew the Collings Foundation B-17 last year. If you recognize the pilot or have any way to figure out who he is (links to photos of the event are below), please post them here or PM me. The original request was posted on Jerry Pournelle's mail blog today, http://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/2008/Q4/mail544.html.

Thx!

eagl

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I'm writing you today with an unusual request - I'm desperately trying to locate a WWII USAAF veteran and/or his family, a former B-17 pilot or co-pilot who took a flight in the Collings Foundation <http://www.collingsfoundation.org > owned-and-operated B-17G, Nine O Nine, on 20May07 at approximately 18:22 local, at Moffett Field, California, near Mountain View.

I photographed him ingressing the aircraft, of his flight, and of him egressing the aircraft and returning down the flightline. His daughter was there, and she gave me a piece of paper with their names and email addresses, and asked me to write them when I posted the photos.

Unfortunately, I misplaced both the CF card with the photos and the slip of paper inscribed with the family's contact information.

Luckily, I've finally located the CF card I used for this portion of the shoot, and uploaded the photos to Flickr here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/null0/sets/72157608364106245/

The gentleman in question is here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/null0/2972419292/sizes/l/in/set-72157608364106245/

with his Collings Foundation B-17 flight tag visible, and the number '8' written on it.

If any of your readers know this gentleman and/or have contacts at the Collings Foundation who can help me locate this gentleman and/or his family, I'd really be grateful, as the Collings Foundation folks don't seem to answer their email nor respond to voicemail messages. There's no need to provide me with any information at all, just please forward the abovementioned URLs for this set of Flickr photos, and ask the family to contact me via FlickMail. I feel terrible not getting the photos processed and uploaded before now, but I hope to try and make them available to these folks, if at all possible.

Thank you so for posting this request, sir - if there's any way your readership can help me make contact with these folks so that they can see their photos, I would really, really appreciate it.

Thanks again!

----- Roland Dobbins