Pilot of Michael J. Donahue's 409th crew. Donahue remembered calling him on intercom during a Munich mission, sick enough to joke about landing at a Luftwaffe field just to find a bathroom.
The missions below are those we have been able to document for this airman, drawn from flight logs, mission records, and archival sources. It is not necessarily a complete account of every mission flown; gaps may reflect missing documentation, transferred assignments, or records lost to time.
Articles, columns, and letters naming this airman in the 2nd Air Division Association journals and the group’s own newsletters. The summaries below are ours; the pieces themselves belong to the writers and publications that produced them.
Mike Donahue's recollection of a homemade privy at Hardwick the night before a mission, a small domestic detail of station life with the 93rd.
Mike Donahue's 409th crew, flying Ma's Worry as 2nd Air Division lead to Hamm, snagged a trailing-wire antenna and still brought the ship home.
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