Major Richard A David was the Radar Operator in the Jeter Flight Crew. The Jeter crew were assigned to combat duty with the 392nd Bombardment Squadron in Nov 1944. They flew missions out of Saipan, and Iwo Jima was their most frequent target. The Jeter crew transferred into the 26th Bombardment Squadron in the 11th Bomb Group in Feb 1945 on Guam. From there they continued to bomb Chichi Jima and Haha Jima.

The Jeter Flight Crew may be the best documented of any flight crew in the 7th Air Force. There was a 2005 PBS documentary about them called "The Jeeter Bug: Mission over Iwo Jima". There was also a book written about them in 2013 by V.C. Partland: "Brothers at Daybreak: World War II B-24 crew beats the odds over Pacific waters".

The Jeter crew flew a wide range of different planes while they were with the 392nd Bomb Squadron, but one plane they flew the most frequently was called BATHLESS (#42-109838).