| Name |
Pos |
Status |
Date |
Notes |
| 2Lt Harold F. Pierce |
P |
TRSF |
Spring 1944 |
466th BG |
| 2Lt Ernest T. Herndon |
CP |
POW |
6 March 1944 |
Shot down with Crew 48 |
| 2Lt Charles C. Noblitt |
N |
KIA |
23 May 1944 |
Mid air collision |
| 2Lt Donald J. Breckenridge |
B |
TRSF |
Spring 1944 |
466th BG |
| S/Sgt Joseph F. Jewett |
E |
TRSF |
Spring 1944 |
466th BG |
| S/Sgt Raymond R. Juskiewicz |
RO |
TRSF |
Spring 1944 |
466th BG |
| Sgt Raphael E. Anthony |
NTG |
UNK |
|
Status Unknown |
| S/Sgt Richard Owens |
TTG |
TRSF |
Spring 1944 |
466th BG |
| S/Sgt Thomas W. Horne |
BTG |
TRSF |
Spring 1944 |
466th BG |
| S/Sgt Verdon S. Price |
TG |
TRSF |
Spring 1944 |
466th BG |
There are a few unknown circumstances involving Crew #40. The photo of the crew was taken at Tonopah in late fall of 1943 while the 458th Bomb Group was undergoing their final phase training prior to being sent overseas. At some point during this training, co-pilot 2Lt Thomas Herndon was replaced by 2Lt Thomas H. McKiernan and 2Lt Charles C. Noblitt was replaced by 2Lt Eugene M. Hoag. Herndon and Noblitt both appear on an early combat crew roster for the 754th Squadron as part of Crew 45, pilot 2Lt Kenneth C. Barton.
The exact date of which the transfer to the 466th Bombardment Group is unknown, but the crew was ostensibly sent there as a lead crew. Ernest Herndon flew as co-pilot on Crew 48 with pilot 2Lt Thayer Hopkins on the March 6, 1944 raid on Berlin. This crew was shot down over Holland. Herndon was wounded and made a POW.
On May 23, 1944, while assembling for a mission to the airfield near Bourges, France, the aircraft that 1Lt. Kenneth Barton was flying collided with a B-17 of the 351st Bomb Group (Pilot 1Lt Peter E. Crowe) whose formation passed through that of the 458th at a 90° angle. Charles Noblitt was the navigator. He and the rest of Crew 45 were killed.
2Lt Eugene M. Hoag, the navigator replacing Charles Noblitt on Crew 40, was shot down on April 25, 1944 while flying with Crew 44, piloted by 2Lt John H. Combs. Hoag apparently filled in for Comb's regular navigator, 2Lt Jacob E. Maze, who after Hoag's loss, went on to fly with Pierce's crew.
Sgt Raphael E. Anthony is also listed on the early combat crew roster as being assigned to Crew 40 as a gunner. He is not pictured above, and nothing further is known about him.
