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Keller crew 384thBG 546BS Sad Sack (42-30196/MACR 0839).

Posted by Sue Moyer on January 5, 2014 at 3:17pm
Back L-R: Lt. Kenneth Gross (B), Lt. Jerome Hart (N), Lt. Marion O’Dell (CP), Lt. Lawrence Keller, Jr. (P) Front L-R: Sgt. Virgilio Jacoby (TT), Sgt. Peter Motiaytis (FG), Sgt. Wallie Vansandt, Jr. (RO), Sgt. John Maloney (FG), Sgt. Harold McClean (BT), Sgt. Charles Jellings (TG), Sgt. Norbert Philippi (FG) Sad Sack (42-30196/MACR 0839). Keller, O'Dell, Hart, Gross, Jacoby and McClean were KIA. Vansandt, Maloney, Motiaytis and Jellings were POW.
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  • Bob Delaney March 25, 2014 at 10:59pm

    Hi all..My father was in the 384th bomb group and 546th squadron..went down in "Me and My Gal" and was in stalag 17b..barracks 34-a..His name was Julius Markus and was left waist gunner..He also flew aboard

    "Little America"."Salvage Queen","Battle Wagon"."Lucky Thirteen","Little Audrey",and "The Cat's Ass" aka

    "Pulmadique"...

     It was "Me and My Gals" first and only combat mission..

  • Sue Moyer January 7, 2014 at 8:15am

    Thank you for that update Viktor.  I did not know that Jellings had remained in the AF. .

  • Viktor Jagodics January 7, 2014 at 8:07am

    Hello Sue

    The Keller Crew was one of five crews who was lost in my area on 14. October 1943.

    Sgt. Charles Jellings was dead after the WWII in a B29 accident, he was a good friend from Roger Grommesch (member of the SSMA)

    Viktor

  • Michael P. Edmiston January 7, 2014 at 3:04am

    Thanks, Sue.  My uncle, Walter A. Kaeli, was in barracks 34B at Stalag 17B.  Belatedly, Happy New Year & thanks for all your work in support of the Association.

  • Sue Moyer January 7, 2014 at 2:49am

    Motiaytis was also at Stalag 17B, Barracks 38A and Jellings was at Stalag Luft 4

  • Sue Moyer January 7, 2014 at 2:24am

    Michael I have found Wallie Vansandt and John Maloney both in barracks 38B, Stalag 17B,  Still looking for the others

  • Michael P. Edmiston January 6, 2014 at 2:37pm

    where were Vansandt, Maloney, Motiaytis and Jellings POWed?

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