Marvin Walter Skinner

S/Sgt Marvin W. Skinner graduated from Arnold High School with the class of 1932 and attended Nebraska Wesleyan University for two years. | | 1st Lt Darold L. Shutt: | We were on the bomb run, about one minute before bombs away, when the lead ship, 42-95582 made two violent corrections with very, very steep banks causing the high right element leader 42-50548 to make a violent bank to the left. Aircraft 42-50662, apparently dropped below aircraft 42-50548 in order to stay in some kind of formation. My attention was directed away from the aircraft as we were concentrating on the bomb run. After bombs away, when I again picked up aircraft 42-50662, the plane was in flames, the tail section behind the waist windows was falling off, the right wing was in flames, and the # 3 engine was gone. Immediately thereafter the entire nose section exploded. No chutes were observed. | | He is remembered at the cemetery of Davenport, Nebraska.