The following series of photos are of  746th BS aircraft 42-51678, "Miss Laid", which was badly hit by flak on group mission no. 168 to Vienna. Miss Laid crash landed in Austria, east of Korneuburg, a small town located a few miles north of Vienna, Austria, on December 11th 1944. On that day, the ship was flown by the following crew:

Pilot:      DUPREE, Donald  H.   1st Lt
Copilot:     BLANARIK, Elmer G.      F/O
Navigator:      VEDROS,  Andrew N.      F/O
Bombardier:      KENNEDY, James D.      2nd Lt
Nose turret:     RANDOLPH, Paul R. Jr.  S/Sgt.
Top turret:    BOLLARD, Robert D.      Sgt.
Ball turret:    AYLSWORTH, Paul  R.      Sgt.
Engineer, left waist:  REDDING, Don C.      S/Sgt.
Radioman and right waist: POWERS    James   M.      Sgt.
Tail turret:     NEILL, Robert  W.      Sgt.

Thanks to Georges "Gino" Künzle of Switzerland for scanning these photos, and to Peter Cronauer of Jet & Prop Magazine and Dr. Gottfried Holzschuh, Austrian Aircraft Historians for permission to reproduce them here.

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