Pacific Wrecks - 345th Bomb Group personnel pose with B-25 Mitchell in New Guinea

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345th Bomb Group personnel pose with B-25 Mitchell in New Guinea
(Standing left to right) ?, SSgt Ernest S. Roberts, SSgt ? (wearing gun holster), ?, ? (wearing gun holster) and ?
On October 16, 1943 engineer SSgt Ernest S. Roberts aboard B-25D Mitchell 41-30561 went Missing In Action (MIA) on a mission against Wewak and ditched off Cape Moen and was captured by the Japanese and became a Prisoner Of War (POW) later executed at St. John's Mission on Kairiru Island.
Credit: Roberts family via Harlan N. Hatfield Date: 1943
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