2nd Lieutenant Alfeo Brusetti

	General experience.
	This page: includes inventory.

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This photograph of B-17s shows the 486^th Bomb Group identification letter on the tail of the aircraft

Inventory of the Donation

• Cape from nurse's uniform
• Written background and training
• Guidelines of combat missions
• Recollection: "My Favourite Mission"
• Photographs
• Booklet, requirements, classifications, training and duties of Air Force Personnel
• Training leaflets including a Pre-flight booklet
• Thanksgiving Day menu, 25^th November 1942
• Theatre fliers and tickets
• Various receipts
• American Red Cross magazine, August 1943
• Services clothing book
• Maps and newspapers

The crew's last celebration at the Hotel Savannah before 'going over', July 1944.

Image on the right, from left to right:

1. Eugene R. Wall (waist gunner)
2. Horace C. Dail (ball turret gunner)
3. Frank Chrastka (tail gunner) (K.I.A.)
4. Daniel C. Pentz (radio man)
5. Lt. R. E. Bereman (first pilot)
6. Sgt. J. I. Clark (waist gunner)
7. Robert J. McCall (navigator)
8. Lt. Alf Brusetti (bombardier)

Missing from photograph: Lt. Ugdrewski (small photo left) and Sgt. Reid (small photo right)

The crew photograph taken in Savannah, Georgia just before going overseas, 1944. Standing: Clark, Chrastka, Wall, Pentz, Reid, Dale Front row: Bereman, Uzdrewski (co-pilot), Brusetti, McCall All but one crew member survived the war but tail gunner Frank Chrastka was killed in action on his last mission on another aircraft, 3 February 1945.

All seven surviving crew members located and reunited for the first time since 1945 in 1989 at a reunion in Tucson, Arizona. From left to right: John Healer, Co-pilot; Alfeo Brusetti, Bombardier; Ron Bereman, Pilot; Rex Tolliver, Radar; Bob Phillips, Pin Point Navigator; Dan Pentz, Radio; Bob McCall, D.R. Navigator.

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Alfeo and Iside, London, January 1945

	General experience.
	This page: includes inventory.