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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42-107204
B-17 Flying Fortress
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Flying Fortress B-17F 42-107204 'Stand By' 335th BS, 95th BG, 8AF USAAF.
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Flying Fortress B-17F 42-107204 'Stand By' 335th BS, 95th BG, 8AF USAAF.
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.
Service
Units
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95th Bomb Group
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... -
335th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
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412th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
People
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William Ballou
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 -
Jacob Brooks
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 -
John Coalson
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 -
Robert Davis
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
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Ernest Erickson
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
An Aviator's Dream: The Man From Painted Woods ... -
Albert Fascenelli
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 -
Frederick Gunnard
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 -
Dale Kennedy
Military | Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) on 6 Apr 45 in B-17 #42107204 while on mission to Leipzig. crashed in Belgium -
Lawrence Morgan
Military | Flight Officer | Co-Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
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William Shaw
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Missions
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8th Air Force 930
6 April 1945
Places
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Thorpe Abbotts
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...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Crashed | Thorpe Abbotts, Diss, Norfolk IP21, UK | 16 December 1944 |
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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 |
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Battle damaged Leipzig 6/4/45. Crashed Foret de Solgars, south of Brussels, Belgium; Missing Air Crew ? (9 x KIA). |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 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 |
| Sources | ||
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 15598 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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