90th Bomb Group

Note the last line of page 42 where he is listed as having 2 crew credits which means his crew shot down two with everyone getting credit from the nose to the tail. This is a lot because a vast majority of the crews did not get any.

Member of the Padtiran crew PASTIRAN, LAWRENCE P. #673618, 319th Sqdn. Creahan, John T. Jr. #743179, Higgins, James P. #738641, Peterson, Dennis M. #T120327, Gilchrist, Frederick C. #15077238, Sydlik, Edward T. #33264639, Weller, Homer E. #33265013, Slota Harry #32434243, Bundy, Warren W. #39609542,...

I found a document dated 1 Jan 44 promoting him to T/Sgt.

Grandpa must have been a wild child. On July 6, 1944 Tech Sgt temp Darr and Tech Sgt Watterson were reduced in grade to private. This site does not like when I post copies made from Maxwell PDFs so if you send me your email I will email you a copy of the Squadron order noting this.

Loyde Adams has him on the Buehler crew. BUEHLER, LLOYD (pat), 745045, 319th Sqdn. Darr, Lester W. no #, Eldxer, Donald E. no #, Fargo, Robert F. no #, Mohn, Mathew W. no #, Welerton, nfn, no #, Berry, Jesse, no #, Kenny, Robert #35514928, Chapman, Irvin (chappie), 640663,, Bigbym K. D. No other inf...

He was promoted to temporary Corporal on Oct 15 45. The server will not let me post a copy of the order. If you email me directly I will send you a copy of the order and one for the following day correcting the spelling of his name.

They were assigned to the 321st Squadron. I have tried to attach a copy of the order but the site keeps telling me Error parsing server response.
Email me direct and I will send you the order dated 19 Mar 1945

HUNT, WALTER H. #724763, 321st Sqdn. crew # 1, Nelson, Lewis J. #736883, (n), Ragotzkie, Robert A. #835379, (cp), Baguley, Sidney Jr. #669160, (b), Carter, Leroy E. #13022881, (e), LeBar, McLyn E. #33336098, (ro), Heller, Herbert T. Jr. #13079389, (ag), Brown, Shirley W. #15174269, (g), McGuire, Cyr...

Last but not least, information on the 90th can be difficult to find at times but in this case there is a book on the mission which your uncle was lost on. I think I found my copy on ebay. The book is part of the Zebra World at War series titled THE DEADLY SKIES by Lawrence Cortesi, Zebra Books, Ken...

Here is page 2 of MACR 9323