$ 64 "?" (PIC 3)

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$ 64 "?"

42-64437

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CHARLES E. ATON

Port (Left) Side

Contributor - Dave Aton
Shown with my Father, Charles E. Aton (Bombardier), kneeling 2nd from right. On 12 May 44, he was injured in the crash on his tenth mission, which had launched from their base at Hardwick Airfield. A machine gun turret fell on his leg and broke his femur and he spent a few months in an army hospital in England. He then got transferred home on a stretcher and spent another nine months in a cast, from ankle to chest, in an army hospital back home. He married on the same date one year later, still on crutches. He lived to the age of 91, but never had any contact afterwards with the other crew members from that day.

Info Contributor - Tom Brittan
One of the original aircraft in 8 445 701. It arrived in the UK 4 Dec 43 and by 28 Dec 43, it had been transferred to 93rd. AG sq code was added in Mar 44. Crashed and burned 12 May 44 at Woodbridge, Suffolk, emergency field.