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Mike Croissant
Airmen Artwork
Artist rendition
An Italian artist's rendition of Ellsworth Croissant.
Tent diagram
Bill Johnson, navigator on Crew 8431, drew a map of the inside of his crew's tent in a letter home.
"We're running out of sky!"
Bombardier Frank Diederichs, who famously beseeched his pilot to "pull up, we're running out of sky!", sketched the moment flak hit their B-24 over Linz.
Landing point
SSgt Roy Wieland sketched a map of the area where he landed after bailing out of his stricken B-24 Miss Lace.
The 3,800-mile Mission
1Lt Jim Momper mapped out the 3,800-mile route he and his crewmates took to get back to Italy after landing in Soviet territory.
Roger the Lodger cartoon
Copilot Fred Funk drew a cartoon of the crew bailing out over Austria as part of his1947 Christmas card to his former crewmates.
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