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A-20 Havoc in France

FRANCE - Air and ground crew members of this Douglas A-20 Havoc, the first 9th AF light bomber to complete 100 missions, exchange compliments at a 9th Bombardment division base. The light bomber, now operating from a base somewhere in France, compiled a record of 100 successive operations without a "turnback," and flew during that period a total of 507 hours, 354 of them in combat; without an engine change. Members of air and ground crews are, left to right: T/Sgt Royal S. Everts, crew chief, Southport, Conn.; Cpl Edson Haddon, his assistant, Denver, Colo.; M/Sgt Horace R. Burch, line chief; 1st Lt. Charles L. McGlohn, pilot, Columbus, Miss., and S/Sgt John Moran, Seattle, Wash.; and Paul Briskall, Auoca, Texas, gunners.