I would like to thank the following for their help in compiling this record. Robert W. (Bob) Reichard, my first contact with the 456th Bomb Group Association, Howard N. Hartman, the co-pilot of my father’s crew, Edward L. Dement, top and nose turret gunner, and Michael J. Dancisak, Ph.D at Tulane University and son of my father’s friend and crew mate in the Army Air Force, George L. Dancisak, Hans Halberstadt of Military Stock Photography and son of Milton L. Halberstadt, and of course the 456th Bomb Group Association for maintaining and preserving the history of the bomb group at their web site 456 Bomb Group. In addition to the web site, the 456th Bomb Group Association published in 1994, the history of the group during the war in the book 456th Bomb Group 1943 – Steed’s Flying Colts – 1945 by Fred H. Riley, the association’s historian, printed by Turner Publishing Company, Paducah, Kentucky. Lastly, I would like to thank theUSAF Academy Libraries for their information on Stalag Luft III.