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Seven San Antonio Men in RAF Flying Fortress Group
Seven men from the San Antonio area, members of a 1st Air Force Flying Fortress group, were awarded a blue battle streamer for a bombing attack on a Ploesti refinery in May. The raid, despite adverse weather, destroyed 28 enemy planes with 30 probably destroyed. seven bombers were lost. Names and addresses of the group members are listed, along with a note about Jennifer Jones starting in her father's traveling tent show.
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San Antonio
Ploesti
Tur
First Lient
Myron B. Andricks
Bombardier
Dixie A. Mann
Cincinnati Avenue
Pic
Marshall I
Agala
Symon R. Agals
Avenue B
Marcus G. Garzan
Jesse Garza
Smitey
Jack R. Fletcher
D. R. Fletcher
Nolan Street
Willa Goldiebn
John W Goldiein
Dewey Place
Trinidad R. Zapata
San Marcos Street
Darrely D. Hallowey
Marion Holloway
Gable