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MAURICE K. BASON |
700th Squadron Emblem
Contributor - Wally Forman
Richard
F. Gelvin (Navigator) has a 4 page narrative
in the 2ADA Journal of how
the nose art happened, and how she came to be adopted as the
700th Bomb Squadron Emblem as depicted (without her name).
Info Contributor - Edward Zobac
Shown with Maurice Knight Bason (Radio
Crew Chief) of Greensboro, NC. My Father, Robert W. Zobac (Waist
Gunner), flew this plane back to the states in May, 1945, with his crew and some
extra ground crew passengers. The crew trained together at Mt. Home, ID in late
1944. They took the ocean liner "Il de France" over to England
in early Jan, 1945. Their first mission was in the middle of Feb.
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