Scenes From the 18th Reunion of the 449th Bomb Group


716th Squadron Veterans
Standing: Bud Rosch, Vernon Petersen, John Manecke, Calvin “Ted” Beale, Albert Ilizaliturri, Al Allen Seated: Ken Blake, Paul Farrell, Wayne Kennedy, John Mahoney, Floyd Haywood, Pat Wehling, Frank Shoaf, Norman “Jim” Barton, Chet Ray


717th Squadron Veterans
Top: Ellsworth Daniels, Bob Lang, Lynn Kinnamon, Clif Denny, Wallace Green, Donald Guimont, Jack Desmond, Ben Smith
Seated: Eddie West, Harry Snyder, Ed Kolek, Leroy Compson, Frances Herres, Jack Hartle, John Aulner


718th Squadron Veterans
Standing: Jim Cady, Don Northway, Mat Mathieu, Morris Coffee, James Rickel
Seated: Charles LaMarca, Harvey Gann, Jim Burnett, Joseph E. Neipling, Eddie Quinn, Robert E. Hathorn, Leo Alpert


719th Squadron Veterans
Top: Walter Bynum, Wilbur Debnam, Rudy Acosta, Bob Simmons, Hershell Bunker, Walter J. Dillon Seated: Lewis Anderson, John McCormick, John J. Johnson, Robert Geisert, Jacques H. Meyer, Ewing Miller, Lee Davis, Floyd Trogdon


Original 449th Cadre Veterans
Standing: Don Northway, Walter J. Dillon, Ellsworth Daniels, Harvey Gann, Charles A. LaMarca Seated: John J. Johnson, Frances Herres, Leroy Compson, Jim Cady, Robert E. Hathorn


Former POWs -- 449th Veterans
Standing: Albert Ilzaliturri, Robert Geisert, John Aulner, Charles A. LaMarca, Harvey Gann
Seated: John McCormick, Ewing Miller, John Mahoney, Frances Herres


A Wing and A Prayer Choral Group
Leroy Compson, Harry Synder, Ed West, Walter Bynum, Paul Farrell, Wally Green, Ed Kolek, John McCormick


Ben Smith and Jack Hartle


Memorial Service


449th BGA President Floyd Trogdon and
Air Force COS General Norton Schwartz


It’s the 1940’s -- Get-Acquainted Party
2nd and 3rd Generation 449th BGA Members