FACSIMILE · MACR 8142
Records№ 01
Mission Log
396 entries. Each with date, target, aircraft, crew manifest, narrative, and outcome. Cross-referenced to MACRs where extant.
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PORTRAIT · T/Sgt. W.L. Orient
People№ 02
Crew Roster
All ten positions, honored equally. Photographs, service records, and — where family has contributed — the private letters that made them human.
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Ships№ 03
Aircraft
B-24D through B-24J. Tail numbers, nose art, service histories, and — when lost — the day and the coordinates.
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William L. Orient | Serial #13111662
A Personal Thread
He sat behind the cockpit, tuning Liberator frequencies.
William Orient flew 37 missions over Europe as a radio operator with the 328th Bomb Squadron. He kept his logs, a photograph of his crew, and the piece of flak that lodged in his headphones the moment he stood up from his seat.
§ Routes
Outbound, 0624Z.
From grass strips in Norfolk, they flew east-southeast across the Channel, formed up over the Wash, then tracked to Schweinfurt, Ploesti, Berlin, Merseburg. Every mission appears on the map with its coordinates, altitude, and the weather brief from that morning.
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