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15th AAF

Dan Dennis Crew
Sleepytime Gal
720th Squadron





Sleepytime Gal Crew

5 September 1944 at Topeka Army Air Base, Kansas

Rear Left to Right
Joe Taverno - Ball Turret
Rinaldo Chiavuzzi - Nose Gunner
Dave Lindberg - Top Turret
Thomas A. Bateman - Radio Operator
Ervin Klasna - Engineer
S/Sgt. Doane Ervin - Tail Gunner

Front Left to Right
Dan Dennis - Pilot
Tom Barnwell - Co-Pilot
George Lenz - Bombardier
Allen C. Hutchinson Jr. - Navigator

The Sleepytime Gal Crew was shot down on 29 December 1944 on a mission to Brenner Pass. Barnwell, Lenz, Chiavuzzi, Lindberg and Klasna, did not survive.


Link To Aircraft Pictures

Information provided by Sharon Nicholson, Neice of S/Sgt Doane Ervin




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