8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 20/3/44; Kearney 2/4/44; Grenier 21/4/44; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-B] Horham 22/4/44 STAND BY; 335BS [OE-B]; with W.C. Shaw force landed Thorpe Abbotts afb 16/12/44; 87m, battle damaged Leipzig 6/4/45 with Bob Davis, Co-pilot: Larry Morgan, Navigator: John Coalson, Bombardier: Fred Gunnard, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Archie Stice, Radio Operator: Albt Fascenelli, Ball turret gunner: Dale Kennedy, Waist gunner: Bill Ballou, Tail gunner: Jake Brooks (9 Killed in Action); crashed Foret de Solgars, south of Brussels, Belgium; Missing Air Crew Report ?; Salvaged 8/4/45; GOIN' MY WAY.
Flown by the Judy crew to Ruhland on the 17th of March 1945
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August...
Squadron
Squadron
Military | Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) 6 Apr 45 in B-17 #42107204 while on mission to Leipzig. Crashed in Belgium
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Judy Crew
Military | Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) on 6 Apr 45 in B-17 #42107204 while on mission to Leipzig. Crashed in Belgium
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 95th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) , plane crashed in Belgium while on mission to Leipzig on 6 Apr 45 in B-17 #42107204
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner ; Flight Engineer | 95th Bomb Group
Judy Crew
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
An Aviator's Dream: The Man From Painted Woods
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Military | Sergeant | Radio Operator | 95th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) on 6 Apr 45 in B-17 #42107204 while on mission to Leipzig. crashed in Belgium
Military | Sergeant | Togglier | 95th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) on 6 Apr 45 in B-17 #42107204 while on mission to Leipzig, crashed in Belgium
Military | Lieutenant | Navigator | 95th Bomb Group
Judy Crew
6 April 1945
Military site : airfield
Home of the 'Bloody Hundredth’, a Bomb Group with a reputation for high casualty rates, Thorpe Abbotts was under USAAF control from June 1943 to the end of the war. Some of the airfield survives today, and the control tower houses the 100th Bomb Group...
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Crashed | Thorpe Abbotts, Diss, Norfolk IP21, UK | 16 December 1944 |
Force landed Thorpe Abbotts AFB 16/12/44. Pilot Lt William C Shaw. |
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Crashed | Brussels, Belgium | 6 April 1945 – 6 April 1945 |
Battle damaged Leipzig 6/4/45. Crashed Foret de Solgars, south of Brussels, Belgium; Missing Air Crew ? (9 x KIA). |
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24 January 2021 20:34:40 | RayWells | Changes to person associations |
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added connections |
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24 January 2021 20:23:05 | RayWells | Changes to description |
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added connections |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
06 May 2020 02:28:35 | jmoore43 | Changes to description |
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Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid clarity. |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
14 December 2015 17:20:07 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, nicknames, markings, events, unit associations, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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AAM DB Entry. |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:40:16 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 15598 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |