was a B-24 pilot during WWII assigned to 490th BG
(pic taken on 18 march 1944, standing second from right)

from fold3 website

1st Lieutenant Edward C. Kinzler was born on January 29, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed four years of high school at Nockamixon High School in Revere, Pennsylvania, before pursuing his civilian occupation as a Substation Operator with the Philadelphia Electric Company, assisting in the operation of a substation switchboard, controlling 110 to 66,000 volt electrical equipment. Kinzler attended Basic Flying School at Coffeyville, Kansas and Advanced Flying School at Altus, Oklahoma with the Army Air Force Schools, graduating in each of Pre-flight Pilot, Primary Pilot, Basic Pilot, Advanced - 2 E, Transit B-24, 4 E courses. He served as an Aviation Cadet from December 1942 to October 1943 and was on Active Duty beginning on October 1, 1943. He was at the Army Air Forces Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field Florida, qualified to pilot four engine aircraft, when he left the United States for the European Theater on April 28, 1944, arriving on May 5, 1944. Kinzler is credited with flying a B-24 in 22 combat missions and a B-17 in 13 combat misions in the European Theater, along with flying a C-47 on training missions. During 1944, aboard B-24 and B-17 aircraft, he was in the air from July to October (July: eighteen missions, twelve of which were combat missions; August: fourteen missions, three of which were combat missions, including ones over Noball and Hemmingstedt; September: ten missions, six of which were combat missions, including ones over Frankfurt, Nurenberg, Arnhem and Ludwigshafen; and October: seven missions, six of which were combat missions, including ones over Munster (2), Berlin, Gustavsburg, Cologne and Kassel). Kinzler left Europe for the United States on November 19, 1944, arriving on November 28, 1944, credited with service in the European Theater of Operations, including the Air Offensive over Europe, Normandy, Northern France and Germany. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with Four Oak Leaf Clusters and the European African Middle Eastern Theater Campaign Ribbon. Kinzler was released from military service upon demobilization at the Separation Center, Fort Dix, New Jersey on June 3, 1945. He tragically died after the war in a cropdusting accident...

Lieut Edward C. Kinzler...