UNITED STATES EIGHTH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1942-1945 - Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph S Tate Jr, Sergeant Edward J Rubin and Technical Sergeant Gottrell H Wright of the 93rd Bomb Group with their B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-40128) nicknamed "Ball of Fire the III".Image stamped on reverse: 'Passed for publication 4 Nov 1943' [stamp]. '283892' [Censor no].Printed caption on reverse: 'COMBAT PERSONNEL OF THE "TRAVELLING CIRCUS"L to R: Lt. Col. Joseph S. Tate, Jr of St. Augustine Fla. Squadron Commander, has completed 32 missions, incl. Rome and Ploesti raids. Col Tate holds the Air Medal, 4 Oak L
UNITED STATES EIGHTH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1942-1945 - Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph S Tate Jr, Sergeant Edward J Rubin and Technical Sergeant Gottrell H Wright of the 93rd Bomb Group with their B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-40128) nicknamed "Ball of Fire the III".Image stamped on reverse: 'Passed for publication 4 Nov 1943' [stamp]. '283892' [Censor no].Printed caption on reverse: 'COMBAT PERSONNEL OF THE "TRAVELLING CIRCUS"L to R: Lt. Col. Joseph S. Tate, Jr of St. Augustine Fla. Squadron Commander, has completed 32 missions, incl. Rome and Ploesti raids. Col Tate holds the Air Medal, 4 Oak Leaf Clusters to the AM, the DFC and one Cluster. SGT. Edward J. Rubin, of Portage, Wis. (near Madison), tail gunner, has completed 12 missions, incl. the Rome raid. Holds the AM and 2 Oak Leaf Clusters. In the raid on Foggia he destroyed an enemy aircraft. T/SGT. Gottrell H. Wright, of Warigold, Miss, near Jackson, completed 18 missions, incl. Rome, Ploesti and the airplane works near Vienna raids. He holds the AM and 2 Oak Leaf Clusters. KEYSTONE SG. '. Print, loose , United States Army Air Forces, United States Army Air Forces, 8th Air Force, United States Army Air Forces, 93rd Bomb Group
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