CAST OF CHARACTERS CAST OF CHARACTERS MCGOVERN’S CREW
George McGovern, pilot
Ralph “Bill” Rounds, co-pilot
Kenneth Higgins, radioman
Carroll Wilson “C. W.” Cooper, navigator
Isador Irving Seigal, tail gunner
William “Tex” Ashlock, waist gunner
Robert O’Connell, nose gunner
Mike Valko, flight engineer
William McAfee, ball turret gunner
Sam Adams, navigator and bombardier
Marion Colvert, navigator
John B. Mills, tail gunner
OTHERS
Art Applin, a B-24 tail gunner
Robert “Ken” Barmore, a B-24 co-pilot
Walter Malone Baskin, a B-24 pilot
Henry Burkle, in command of ground crews in Cerignola
Robert S. Capps, a B-24 pilot
Kenneth A. Cool, first commander of the 455th Bomb Group
Donald R. Currier, a B-24 navigator
David R. Davis, designer of the Davis wing for the B-24
Vincent Fagan, a B-24 pilot
Richard Farrington, a B-24 pilot
Howard Goodner, a B-24 radioman
Robert Hammer, a B-24 radioman
Francis Hosimer, a B-24 pilot
Art Johnson, a B-24 waist gunner
Donald P. Kay, a B-24 bombardier
Horace W. Lanford, first commander of the 741st Squadron
Francesco Musto, a Cerignola resident who worked for the Americans
Charles Painter, a B-24 pilot
Roland Pepin, a B-24 navigator
Guyon Phillips, a B-24 pilot
Anthony Picardi, a B-24 crew member
Joe Quintal, athletic director in Mitchell, South Dakota
Norman Ray, from Custer, South Dakota, who persuaded McGovern to take Civilian Pilot Training, then became his instructor on the B-24 before becoming a B-29 pilot
Glenn Rendahl, a B-24 pilot
Harold Schuknecht, 741st Squadron flight surgeon
Walter Shostack, a B-24 pilot
John G. Smith, a B-24 pilot
William L. Snowden, Cool’s replacement as commander of the 455th Bomb Group
Ed Soderstrom, a B-24 pilot
Howard Surbeck, a B-24 pilot with whom McGovern served as co-pilot for his first five missions
Mel TenHaken, a B-24 radioman