In foreground: Maj. Gen. George C. Kenny and, most likely, Lt. Col.Carmichael. Lt. Col. Richard H.Carmichael was CO of the 19th Bomb Group. Carmichael led a 16 plane mission of B-17s form Port Moresby to Vunakanu airstrip near Rabaul on August 7, 1942. This is the mission which earned Captain Harl Pease the posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor.

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