photos that Cpl. Robert H. Reed of the 57th BW took… as you know he was the photographer flying on the "Virginia Sturgeon" on group mission #79 that day, we may find the negatives from April 28, 1943.

Cpl. Robert H Reed, 310th BG, 428th BS, Mission #79 on 28 April, 1943. Robert took a photo from higher in the sky that captured the exact moment a P-51 Pilot let a "zero-second-delay" bomb hit directly a Troop Ship that exploded and blew the P-51 sideways! He printed it out and gave it to Lt Richard F Kenney, Pilot of that P-51, as a gift! Dick Kenney was shot down his next Mission and became a badly injured POW, for the rest of the war. Nothing was ever sent home, so the search for that particular picture is still on.

Col. Dick Kenney, who would later serve as Fighter Pilot, C.O. and forward leader in Jet-Flight also served in Korea. He retired a full Col. and passed at age 94 in his home on Coronado Island Dec. 11, 2014.

Barbi Ennis Connolly, WWII Historical Researcher