Thomas Oliver, 2007
- Branch of Service: United States Army Air Force
- B24 pilot in the 756th Squadron, 459th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force
Listen to the following sections by scrolling forward to the timecode.
0:00 - West Point graduate; learned to fly B-24; missions
4:20 - Plane damaged, went down; bailed out with parachute into Yugoslavia
10:12 - Yugoslavia people cared for the soldiers; local food; gathered with the crew; there for over two months
24:00 - Sent messages to American Fifteenth Air Force in Italy; evacuation
33:23 - Mother and father received MIA telegram
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Tom Oliver's flight crew before their plane was shot down. The Mudcat (catfish) logo is in the background. Oliver is in the back row, far right. The photo was taken in February 1944.