"On 31 Dec 44 the target was Hamburg. The 100th Bomb Group would lose 12 a/c on this mission. Flying in "C Squadron" of the 100th BG, Lt Leo D. Ross was in the Low Squadron, Low flight. They were in the "Tail End Charlie" position along with Lt MacNab, Lt Webster, and Lt Rojohn. All 4 crews in the low flight were lost this day. At 12:30pm, B-17G "Faithful Forever" piloted by Lt Leo Ross was attacked by German fighters. Lt Ross dove down, leveled off, and then went into a tight spin at 5000 ft. Two chutes were seen. The aircraft crashed at Bartelsdorf near Rotenberg (30km east of Bremen) Germany. " 
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Faithfull Forever

November 1944: Ground crew members prepare bombs to be loaded into the racks of the waiting B-29 Superforts, at a U.S. airbase on Saipan, in the Mariana Islands


Airbase on Saipan

Members of the 332nd Fighter Group"Tuskegee Airmen" attending a briefing in Ramitelli, Italy. Photograph by Toni Frissell shows members of the 332nd, from left to right: Robert W. Williams, Ottumwa, IA, Class 44-E; (leather cap) William H. Holloman, III, St. Louis, Mo., Class 44-?; (cloth cap) Ronald W. Reeves, Washington, D.C., Class 44-G; (leather cap) Christopher W. Newman, St. Louis, MO, Class 43-I; (flight cap) Walter M. Downs, New Orleans, LA, Class 43-B (Source: Photographer's notes and Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group pilots.), March, 1945.