When Glover Eddy Barney was born on February 23, 1916, in Chelan, Washington, his father, Albert, was 40 and his mother, Bessie, was 35. He married on February 16, 1946, in Lewis and Clark, Montana. Engineer of the B17F 'Picklepuss', S/N 42-30063, they led the 418th Squadron which was assigned to bomb the Messerschmitt factory at Regensburg, Germany. The mission plan was that after the bomb run, the group was to continue east and land in Africa. However, enroute to Regensburg they were attacked by a squadron of ME 109's. One of the German fighters took out one of the engines on Pickelpuss. The plane couldn't keep up with the group anymore and the crew decided to turn around and fly back to their base at Thorpe Abbots in England. After about 15 minutes of flying, they were intercepted by another squadron of ME 109's who managed to set the bomber on fire. Shortly thereafter the plane blew up. Shot down by enemy fighters (Hauptmann Von Bonin, Oberleutnant Barte and Leutnant Witzke), the aircraft crashed at Herbesthal Lontzen, 500 meters west of Schmalgraf, near Kelmis, west of Aachen, in Belgium on August 17, 1943. He was one of four crew members that survived and spent almost two years as prisoners of war at POW camps in Germany (he was imprisoned at Stalag 17B Braunau Gneikendorf Near Krems Austria 48-15). He died on March 31, 1992, in Multnomah, Oregon, at the age of 76 but his current burial place is unknown.

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