447th Badge447th Bomb Group
USAAF Station 126 - Rattlesden 
Ground Crew Gallery

A collection of photos featuring the hardworking members of the ground crews who kept the B-17s flying.

We have provided names where they are known. In many cases, these names are written on the back of the photographs, without indication of which names belong to which faces.

An additional 250 photographs of ground personnel at work can be found in Operation Caption


842nd Engineering Sqdn

Sgt. John Ford
Crew Chief for Jersey Bounce II

Ground crew for
Jersey Bounce II

James E. Lee, E. Wrobul, Guy DW Bird, Charles J. Gragg

Rex Katz, Frank Mazzio, Albert Hahn, Charles Wood, Harold Moran 
and others of the 708th

Lewis Castner, Howard B. Reid Jr., Bill Farhis and ?

Chester G Pearson, Herbert W. Orwig, ?

Carl R. Sirianni, Jay Arnold, ?

CPL Edward Hogg; Sgt Russel H Jarsky Jr., Theron Gullion-Sheldon, ?

This Thumper was constructed on the base around
the engine from a broken portable generator.