1st leiutenant Alva J Tompkins, serial number 0-823738, flew with the 704th Bomb Squadron part of the 446th BG. He was awarded the DFC and the Air Medal with three oakleaf clusters.
Press clipping about the crash on October 25th 1944 whilst Ferrying injured personnell to a rest home in Lancashire England.
see the picture below for another crew member on that fateful flight first lieutenant Joseph Miller,pictured second from the right.
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Sarah Jane Tompkins.
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