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Crew 804. Mainly flew K-41 (44-70010), "City of Glen Falls, NJ" aka "Ol' Cue Ball". This crew apparently shared K-41 with Vicks crew. She was named after the Bombardier's, Talbot, home town in New Jersey. They completed 20 missions, half of them in K-41 and were awarded multiple Air Medals. This photo graciously provided by the A/C Clyde Higginson. That is him, 2nd from the right in the front row. Rank Position First Last SN CAP A/C Clyde T. Higginson 0-725727 2LT P Richard F. Farr 0-781536 1LT N Robert J. Shaffer 0-2064341 1LT B Arthur L. Talbot Jr. 0-386454 2LT Rad Ob Avedis P. Bogosian 0-2073032 MSGT FE John R. Hill 38471152 SSGT RO Jack T. Sanford 17181657 TSGT CFC Richard W. Houghton 39048570 SGT RG Robert L. Johnson 34911931 SSGT LG Vincent P. Jones Jr. 13174467 SSGT TG Edward V. Kaluzne 33682223 Ground Crew MSGT Cr/Chief Malcolm B. Leech 15081526 SSGT Ground John H. Girvan 32381401 According to a written account from Clyde Higginson "This plane was assigned to our crew as soon as it arrived at Guam. We flew it on about 10 of our 20 missions I flew it back to Mather Field after the war with about 25 passengers in Nov. 1945. As I recall, Vick and I shared her. It was a good Seattle built plane."