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Title
Tupelo
Lass
crew
in
Benghazi
before
Ploesti
,
Romania
Description
The
Tupelo
Lass
crew
prior
to the
Ploesti
raid
of
August
1
,
1943
.
Second
from
left
,
bottom
,
is
pilot
Jake
Epting
.
Epting
was
originally
not
going
to
fly
having
finished
his
25
missions
and
Col
.
Jacob
Smart
, the
architect
of the
Ploesti
attack
, was to
take
Epting’s
place
.
Smart
was
removed
from the
flight
as he
knew
of the
D-Day
plans
,
which
could
be at
risk
if he was
captured
.
Ploesti
became
Epting’s
26th
mission
.
Kuroki
is
to
Epting’s
left
.
Next
to
Ben
is
co-pilot
Charles
‘Five
by
Five’
Young
,
who
flew
as a
waist
gunner
. On the
upper
right
is
Ray
Wier
, the
ground
crew
chief
who
went
on his
first
and
only
mission
as an
observer
.
Wier
did
not
receive
the
Distinguished
Flying
Cross
awarded
to
all
the
other
men
who
flew
Ploesti
, as was he was not
supposed
to be on
board
.
Ben
Kuroki
,
born
Hershey
,
NE
Army
Air
Forces
Technical
Sergeant
93rd
Bombardment
Group
.
Date
circa 1943
Format
photo
Publisher
Copyright 2007 NET Television
http://netNebraska.org
Coverage
Nebraska; Romania
Source
Courtesy William Hubbard
Identifier
MostHonorableSon
Subject
Ben
Kuroki
,
born
Hershey
,
NE
Army
Air
Forces
Technical
Sergeant
93rd
Bombardment
Group
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