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Harbor White Two, 26 June 1943
P-47D serial 42-7887 flown by LT Byron L. Morrill, 62nd Fighter Squadron, 56th FG. Bomber escort mission to Villacoublay, France.
On a 26 November 1943 withdrawal support mission, Morrill reported a low fuel indication prior to rendezvous with the bomber stream; with Leroy A. "Schreib" Schreiber escorting him, Morrill was ordered to head for home. Schreiber noted a vapor stream trailing Morrill's 'Jug,' but they were too low to leave contrails: it was an obvious fuel leak. Morrill bailed out over the Zuider Zee, and spent the remainder of hostilities as a POW (MACR 1275). He spent his free time as a 'kriegie' painting in watercolors, compliments of the sporadic Red Cross parcels.
Harbor White Two, 26 June 1943
P-47D serial 42-7887 flown by LT Byron L. Morrill, 62nd Fighter Squadron, 56th FG. Bomber escort mission to Villacoublay, France.
On a 26 November 1943 withdrawal support mission, Morrill reported a low fuel indication prior to rendezvous with the bomber stream; with Leroy A. "Schreib" Schreiber escorting him, Morrill was ordered to head for home. Schreiber noted a vapor stream trailing Morrill's 'Jug,' but they were too low to leave contrails: it was an obvious fuel leak. Morrill bailed out over the Zuider Zee, and spent the remainder of hostilities as a POW (MACR 1275). He spent his free time as a 'kriegie' painting in watercolors, compliments of the sporadic Red Cross parcels.