My uncle Warren was not drafted and didn't have to fly missions with the 306th. He volunteeered to join the AAF before Pearl Harbor and he was assigned to a ground radio operations post. He volunteered to fly with a "bastard crew" (a crew thrown together for one mission) for the max effort mission to Schweinfort on Oct 14th, 1943. When his aircraft was severely damaged enroute to the target, he stayed at his radio post with the aircraft commander while the rest of the crew bailed out, presumably to transmit information about the crews' status. He and the AC were found in the wreckage att their posts by the local Germans. He was 22 years old.
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