Welcome to the
500th Bombardment
Group

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following agencies and individuals for their cooperation in supplying photographs: War Department and U S Army Air Forces Bureaus of Public Relations, 73rd Bomb Wing Photo Lab and Public Relations Sections, Iscom Signal Corps, U S Marine Corps Public Relations Division, LIFE, AIR FORCE and BRIEF magazines, Boeing Aircraft Company, Irving E Chase, Louis Erisman, Robert Blankenburg, Laverne and Lavon Davis, Lyman Perkins, Allen B McKell, Paul Trier, Robert Coldsworthy, Richard E Hale, Ferd Curtis, Maxwell Julian and Phil Oliver.

Thanks goes also to the many former 500th Bomb Group men, particularly Colonel John E Dougherty, Lt Colonel Herbert Adamson, Major Ralph B Maust and Lieutenant Leonard W Anderson, group historical officer, who have assisted in the collection and preparation of material used in this book.

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A very, very special thank you to Bill Copeland and his brother-in-law, Russ Beaver, for scanning this album, making this part of history available to the public!

Credits go to Thumb6 for the thumbnail graphics and to K/oS WebImageLister for the graphic-lister table.

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