Us Official Photographs

Doodle Bug crew in North Africa

SOMEWHERE IN NORTH AFRICA: Nine original members of the "Doodle Bug" crew taken beside their Liberator. This crew went through months of intensive training as a team at Davis-Monthan Field, Tuscon, Ariz. They are, left to right (Front Row): Staff Sergeant Libert T. Hurt, of Hazard, Ky., asst. radio operator and waist gunner; T/Sgt. Kemeth W. Smith, of Harrisburg, Pa., engineer and top turret gunner; S/Sgt. Murray L. Heckert, of Sterling, Ill., tail gunner; S/Sgt. Joseph E. Tamuleircz, of Millis, Mass., asst. engineer and gunner. (Back Row), 1st Lt. James W. Welsh, Jr., of St. Augustine, Fla., co-pilot, 2nd Lt. Robert J. Johnson, of Fillmore, Calif., navigator; 2nd Lt. Isreal Soloff, of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., bombardier; 1st Lt. John E. Jordan, of Columbia, S.C., radio operator and waist guner. Unidentified