“It wasn’t supposed to have been that way, and Tommy McGuire knew it. The plan had been for the 475th Fighter Group to have moved north at the same time as the 49th-with McGuire’s 431st Hades Fighter Squadron leading the way-but in wartime things often don’t work out according to plan. While Tacloban was able to start receiving the 49th sooner than expected, the 475th was scheduled to go into the Dulag, about ten miles to the south, but it remained a muddy mess longer than expected. Indeed, several aircraft trying to use Dulag as an emergency landing site had wrecked.”
– Excerpt from: Aces High: The Heroic Saga of the Two Top-Scoring American Aces of World War II, by Bill Yenne
Major Verle E. Jett
Major Thomas B. McGuire Jr.(KIA)
Capt. Robert F. Cline
Major John H. Vogel
Capt. Edwin R. Weaver
Jack B Rittmayer (KIA)
David W. Allen
Donno C. Bellows
Harry W. Brown
Eugene S. Ciolek
Frederic F. Champlin
Norris J. Clark
William C. Gronemeyer (MIA)
Kenneth F. Hart
Robert L Herman
John J. Hood
Carl H. Houseworth
Marion F. Kirby
Jack C. Mankin
Thomas E. Martin
Franklin H. Monk
Paul V. Morriss
William S. Obrien (MIA)
John Pietz Jr.
Horace B. Reeves
Harry A. Setzer
Malcolm E. Switner
John R. Ballard
Cyprus C Barter
Foch J. Benevent
Sanford H Benjamin
James F. Box
Robert G. Casey
John A. Cohn
Lloyd W. Crabtree
Robert L. Crosswait (MIA)
Edward J. Czarnecki
William W. Dallas
Dulphus R. Dawson
Louis D. DuMontier
Franklin W. Ekdahl
Vincent T. Elliot
Arthur L. Erickson
Herbert S. Finney (KIA)
Samuel A. Fossaceca
Floyd H. Fulkerson Jr. (MIA)
Owen N. Giertson
Robert G. Haley
Robert A. Hall
Christopher J. Herman
Harold E. Holze
David B. Hutchins
Edwin B. Jackson
Alvin R. Kidd
Lowell C. Lutton (MIA)
Stanley R. Marks
Howard N. Max
Allen C. Mayer
Alvin R. Neal
John R O’rourke
Jack F. Olson
Thomas M. Oxford
Edward C. Palmer Jr.
Chester C. Parshall
Merle D. Pearson
Chester D. Phillips (MIA)
Enrique Provencio (MIA)
Robert R. Riegle
Richard E. Roark
Charles R. Samms
Walter N. Scott
George W. Smith Jr (KIA)
Paul Smith (MIA)
George F. Stephens
Robert W. Stern
Douglas S. Thropp Jr.
John A. Tilley
Erling J. Varland (KIA)
George M Veit
Robert K. Weary
Arthur E. Wenige
Robert A Werner
L.W. Wertzbaugher
Frank N. Woodruff
Herman W. Zehring
James H. Barnes
Orville Blythe
Edward N. Carley (KIA)
Wood D. Clodfelter (KIA)
Warren J Cortner
Robert P. Donald (KIA)
Andrew K. Duke (KIA)
Ronald P. Dunlap
John J. Durkin
Harold W. Gray
Martin P. Hawthorne (KIA)
Edward J. Hedrick (MIA)
James E. Hood
Robert E. Hunt
Bascom S Jones
MacLeod Jones (MIA)
John B Knox (MIA)
Robert A. Koeck (KIA)
Nathaniel V. Landen (KIA)
Edward J. Leidenbert
Lloyd C. Lentz
Claude M Loe Jr.
Frank F. Long
Milton A. MacDonald (MIA)
Harold N. Madison
Robert A Mavity
Donald F. McBreen
James A. Moreing
Edward J. O’Neill
Mortimer Olster
Roger A. Pare
Robert B. Patterson (KIA)
Ormond E. Powell (MIA)
Kenneth M. Richardson (MIA)
Joseph A. Robertson (KIA)
Alvin C. Roth (KIA)
Ralph E. Schmidt (MIA)
Arthur J. Schmitt (MIA)
Robert J. Smith (MIA)
William C. Smith
Joseph E. Tedford
John R. Weldon (MIA)
Thomas W. Turner
Harlan M. Aston
Harry A. Dixon
George M. Akin
Glen H Cleveland
Alfred G Fitzgerald
Charley P. Ford
Bruno M Genarlsky Jr.
Edwin F. Gillum
Robert
J. Hoffstatter
Leland F. Howerton
Howell A. Hudson
Joseph Kmiec
Raymond J. Lackie
Clemens Lewicki
A. H. Lun
Joseph R. Malin
Fred B. Mitchell Jr.
Stanley Piszkin
Roland C. Rock
Preston W. Rogers
Steve Stanich
Vincent F. Straus
Claude Venters
Claud E. Wheeler
Gwynne W. White
Herman O. Wilke
William G. Wilson
Woodrow F. Anderson
Robert H. Applewhite
Milton B. Back
Raymond Baird
William C. Ball
J. D. Barrow
James Ccr. Bell
Richard M Binder
Burton L. Bishop
John Bistronish
James C. Brice
John E Brock
James F. Brown
Michael P Campbell
Edgar H. Childs
Edward P Clark
George D Collins
Walter Collins
Lawrence E Colson
Charles W Corbin
Spencer F Cram
Tom W Crumpler
Anthony Di Rocco
Charles E Edgley
Kiah Evans
Charles R Fitzwater
Harry H. Francis
Joseph A Gallant
Everett W Gray
George J. Hass
Edward R Hall
William H Hall
Nevin H Hazel
Eddie Henson
Curtis H Hobbs
Lawrence W Holland
George Hramika Jr.
James L. Jackson
George E. Jeschke
Victor C. Johnson
William D Kempter
Carl A King
Frank Z. Kish
Joseph M. Kropp
Thaddeus J. Lemanski
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William V. Lowry
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Knight H. Morton
Samuel T. Moses
Hugh F. Mott
Douglas W. Nash
James C. Naughton
Robert R. O’neil
John J. Posephney
Juke W. Powell
Jeffrey R. Robertson
Marvin O Rose
Marshall B. Russell
James E. Skaggs
James W. Spitler
John L. Stanley
Yancy Q. Stephens
Henry G. Stroud
Hallie Van meter
Daniel H. Wagner
George E. West
Jack E. Wilding
Hugh Alsup
Malcolm E Anderson
Harry E Arthur
John R Asher
John J Balchik
Walter F. Battle Jr.
Michael Bauman
Arthur F. Bayley Jr.
William D. Bean
James C. Boal
Charles H. Brumfield
Anthony T. Caloyern
Nicholas H Campese
Sam A. Castellano
Thomas J. Cherro
Noel Coet
Homer F. Cole
George W. Coons
Dominic L. Desocio
Homer H. Downard
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Arthur W. Edholm
Edwin R. Farewell
Robert Fenstermacher
Bernard J Ferber
Roy R. Foresee
Curtis D. Gardner
Darell G Gerot
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GeorgeF. Harrell
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Fred P. Harvey
Robert E. Hayes
Thomas F. Himm
Elmer T. Hines
Clyde L Holmes
Noel E. Hughes
Henry G Irvine
Roger D. Irvine
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Daniel F. Leary
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William C. Long
Edward V. Lownsdale
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John L. Miles
Charles H. Mock
Alvin M. Neal
Frederick S. Nielson
Earl J O’Neill
Baxter M. Phillips
Seymour V. Prell
Roy E. Reinhardt
DeWitt Roberts
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Bernard Ruskin
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William L. Schlotterbeck
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Von D. Spahr Jr.
Harry R. Swartz
William H Taff
Joe B Thornton
William J Tocneri
Gustav Wachholtz
Newton E. Walker
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Charles W. Young
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Roy R. Armentrout
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William Benjamin Jr.
Melvin S. Black
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Leroy E. Erwin
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Primo A Framarin
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John F Harris
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Gladstone B. Mortimer
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Thomroseas R. Peak
Cerls G Pelekoudas
Nicklos Petroski
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Milton Post
Pershing J. Prince
Roy F. Raines
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Jack Robinson
Charles W. Saunders
Frank Scardilli
Vernon M Schiake
Walter J. Schmidt
Celio O Seamans
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Eugene A Snipes
Robert C. Snyder
John F. Sobaia
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Robert L. Struble
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Rodney V. Thompson
Charles A. Trapp
Richard F. Vandergeest
Richard A. Walkup
Arthur L. Whiteley
Roland F. Whitney
James L. Wilson
John B. Wonderly
Howard R. Woods
Romeo J. Allard
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William H. Beake Jr.
Robert E. Binning
Billy N Brayfield
Alfred L Breault
Charles R. Campbell
Marco A Carefeno
George F Clark
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Urban A Colvin
William B Cooper
Kermit O Dakken
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Paul L Dulaney
Clyde W Evans
Carl L Foulk
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Gerald B Hicks
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Robert F Johnson
Richard J Jordan
Jack D Knott
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John J Sheehan
Ambrose W. Snyder
Samuel Soptelean Jr.
Elbert W. Steger
Guy J Stokes
Harry A. Sullivan
Alfred Taylor
Ira P Todd
Herbert A Victor
Jack B Walden
Jack M. Waldhelm
Christopher Whaley Jr.
Allen O. Wofford
Elmer E. Wright Jr.
Fred Yennie Jr.
Warner E. Calvert
Daniell F. Clancy
Alvin E. Compton
Robert L. Cronk
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William C. Herring
Troy L. Keeling
Walter L. Lok
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George F. Newlove
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Stanley P. Przybysiski
Joseph R. Rice
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David Stern
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James J. Thyne
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Albert H. Altman
Joseph F. Batteer
William F. Bucke Jr
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John D. Davis
Frank De Croce
Francis G. Garred
James J. Hickey
Robert L. Kurtze
Eddie M. Miller
Joseph C. Mohler
Jess W. Nelson
Roberto Reyes
Robert W. Rosencrans
Stanley Sauerstrom
John S. Shafara
William H. Sullivan Jr.