Significant Members of The 91st Bomb Group
- 1st Lt. William J. Crumm, 324th Bomb Squadron
- Lt. Crumm was an original member of the group and flew eleven of its first seventeen missions. He and his crew were the first to return from combat, assigned on 14 February 1942, to return to the United States to prepare a training manual for bomber crews. Promoted to lieutenant colonel, Crumm later commanded the 61st Bomb Squadron, 39th Bomb Group of the Twentieth Air Force, operating B-29s against Japan. He went on to become a major general in the United States Air Force and died in the mid-air collision of two B-52 bombers on 6 July 1967, returning from a mission to South Vietnam.
- M/Sgt. Rollin L. Davis, 323rd Bomb Squadron
- M/Sgt. Davis was a maintenance line chief in charge of B-17 42-31909, nicknamed Nine-O-Nine (pictured above), which completed 140 missions between 25 February 1944 and the end of the war, at least 126 in a row without turning back because of mechanical failure, for which Sgt. Davis received the Bronze Star.
- LtCol. Immanuel J. Klette, 324th Bomb Squadron
- Colonel Klette flew 91 bomber missions as a co-pilot and pilot with the 306th Bomb Group, and as a command pilot with the 91st. Over 30 of his missions were as group, wing, division, or air force mission commander while serving with the 91st BG. His 91 sorties are the most by any Eighth Air Force pilot in World War II.
- Capt. Robert K. Morgan, 324th Bomb Squadron
- Captain Morgan, an original member of the group, piloted the Memphis Belle in combat and returned it to the United States.
- 1st Lt. Bert Stiles, 401st Bomb Squadron (author)
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