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<blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1770315" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11105156_688960874567041_3187620453294548416_n.jpg?oh=79d459de08733359fce9171e4f33f527&amp;oe=55AE135A&amp;__gda__=1436148706_a1ef67b2874f344f3fc6a0da80abbd76" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> US Air Force pilot 2nd Lieutenant Robert Wade Biesecker with his crew of the 569th Bombardment Squadron, 390th Bomb Group, US Eighth Air Force, standing by 'Honey Chile', their B-17 Flying Fortress bomber (serial 42-31027), at RAF Framlingham, a US Eighth Air Force Bomber Command station in England, 18 October 1943. Posing with the group are mascots 'Scrappy' and Joe', a dog and a monkey. 'Scrappy&quot; was presented to the crew while training in the US and accompanied the crew on their transatlantic flight to England. 'Joe' was picked up from another station, and the two animals become quite inseparable, 'Joe' regularly being carted around the base on 'Scrappy's back.Robert 'Bob' Bisecker, a 24-year-old from North Carolina, had enlisted on 31 Mar 1942. Despite his young age, has was already married to 21 year-old Dorothy Rankin from Vancouver, and working as a sales agent.On 18 May 1944, eight months to the day from when this photo was taken, Biesecker - now flying 'Rick-O-Shay III', another B-17 (serial 42-37925), of the 571st Bomber Squadron - was attacked by six ME 109 fighters while on a bombing run to Augsburg, Germany.The aircraft exploded and crashed just south of Lahr near the Black Forest, Germany, after three of the crew had managed to bale out. Biesecker was killed in the engagement. He is buried at the Lorraine American Cemetery, at St. Avold, France: grave 19, plot G row 5. Dorothy remarried after his death and only passed away in May 2000, survived by one daughter, three grandchildren, a sister, a brother, an several nieces and nephews. I hope this post might find its way to some of them!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="emilioteles, post: 1770315, member: 3144"] [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11105156_688960874567041_3187620453294548416_n.jpg?oh=79d459de08733359fce9171e4f33f527&oe=55AE135A&__gda__=1436148706_a1ef67b2874f344f3fc6a0da80abbd76[/IMG] US Air Force pilot 2nd Lieutenant Robert Wade Biesecker with his crew of the 569th Bombardment Squadron, 390th Bomb Group, US Eighth Air Force, standing by 'Honey Chile', their B-17 Flying Fortress bomber (serial 42-31027), at RAF Framlingham, a US Eighth Air Force Bomber Command station in England, 18 October 1943. Posing with the group are mascots 'Scrappy' and Joe', a dog and a monkey. 'Scrappy" was presented to the crew while training in the US and accompanied the crew on their transatlantic flight to England. 'Joe' was picked up from another station, and the two animals become quite inseparable, 'Joe' regularly being carted around the base on 'Scrappy's back. Robert 'Bob' Bisecker, a 24-year-old from North Carolina, had enlisted on 31 Mar 1942. Despite his young age, has was already married to 21 year-old Dorothy Rankin from Vancouver, and working as a sales agent. On 18 May 1944, eight months to the day from when this photo was taken, Biesecker - now flying 'Rick-O-Shay III', another B-17 (serial 42-37925), of the 571st Bomber Squadron - was attacked by six ME 109 fighters while on a bombing run to Augsburg, Germany. The aircraft exploded and crashed just south of Lahr near the Black Forest, Germany, after three of the crew had managed to bale out. Biesecker was killed in the engagement. He is buried at the Lorraine American Cemetery, at St. Avold, France: grave 19, plot G row 5. Dorothy remarried after his death and only passed away in May 2000, survived by one daughter, three grandchildren, a sister, a brother, an several nieces and nephews. I hope this post might find its way to some of them! [/QUOTE]

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