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Craig
1/9/2004 2:43:22 PM | My mother-in-law's brother was SSgt Wade Brunson, a ball turret gunner on "Maid to Order" or Hula Girl" depending on where the info comes from. He was KIA on 16 Feb 1945. The rest of the info on his crew is here: http://www.401bg.com/history/crew.asp?cid=13111
If anyone has any info about him or the rest of the crew, please email me.
Thanks in advance!
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Donald Byers
1/13/2004 2:00:06 PM | What happens when a plane has two names is normally when it moves from either one crew that has completed it's missions or when an aircraft moves from one squadron to another as in this case. The receibing crew may want to call it a different name and so they add the nose art or name of the plane to either the right or left side of the aircraft which has no nose art on it.
Don Byers
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Scott McElvain
1/13/2004 4:28:59 PM | Hula Girl was it's name in the 615th with a IY H/A squadron designator. Maid to Order was 614th, IW H. No photos are known to exist......
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