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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41-28593
B-24 Liberator
Assigned to 712BS, 448BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Brunswick, shot down by fighters 11-Jan-44. 5 x KIA, 5 x POW. MACR 2519.
Service
Units
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448th Bomb Group
Group
The 448th Bombardment Group was organized on 6 April 1943 and activated on 1 May 1943 at Gowen Field, near Boise, Idaho. The initial training of the air crews took place in Florida. The entire group was assembled Wendover Field, Utah. Both air and... -
712th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
People
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Jim Biggerstaff
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 448th Bomb Group
Shot down by fighters on mission to Brunswick on 11 Jan 1944 in B-24H #41-28593. Killed in Action (KIA). Purple Heart -
John Hilton
Military | Staff Sergeant | Radio Operator | 448th Bomb Group
Shot down by fighters on mission to Brunswick on 11 Jan 1944 in B-24H #41-28593. Prisoner of War (POW). POW -
Conrad Holzgraf
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 448th Bomb Group
Shot down by fighters on mission to Brunswick on 11 Jan 1944 in B-24H #41-28593. Prisoner of War (POW). POW -
Willard Malwitz
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 448th Bomb Group
Shot down by fighters on mission to Brunswick on 11 Jan 1944 in B-24H #41-28593. Killed in Action (KIA). -
James Newton
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 448th Bomb Group
Shot down by fighters on mission to Brunswick on 11 Jan 1944 in B-24H #41-28593. Prisoner of War (POW). The fallen members from his crew are commemorated on a memorial in Dwingeloo, Netherlands. ... -
Isaac O'Dell
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 448th Bomb Group
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Donald Schumann
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 448th Bomb Group
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Harvey Smith
Military | Staff Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 448th Bomb Group
Shot down by fighters on mission to Brunswick on 11 Jan 1944 in B-24H #41-28593. Killed in Action (KIA). -
Raymond Thurber
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 448th Bomb Group
Shot down by fighters on mission to Brunswick on 11 Jan 1944 in B-24H #41-28593. Killed in Action (KIA). -
Harold White
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 448th Bomb Group
Shot down by fighters on mission to Brunswick on 11 Jan 1944 in B-24H #41-28593. Killed in Action (KIA).
Places
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Seething
Military site : airfield
Built during 1942-43 as an Eighth Air Force bomber base, Seething had three concrete runways, 51 hardstandings of both loop and 'frying-pan’ types, and two T2 hangars, one on each side of the airfield. It was home to the 448th Bomb Group, equipped with... -
Monument to American Flyers, Dwingeloo
Crash site
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Manufactured | Tulsa, OK, USA | 1943 |
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Built at Douglas. |
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| Delivered | Oklahoma, USA | 1943 |
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Delivered to USAAF. |
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| Assigned | Seething, Norwich NR15, UK | 1943 |
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Assigned to 712BS, 448BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Crashed | 7991 Dwingeloo, Netherlands | 11 January 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Brunswick, shot down by fighters 11-Jan-44. 5 x KIA, 5 x POW. MACR 2519. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 08 August 2016 14:15:43 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, nicknames, markings, description, events, unit associations and place associations |
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http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbmsn.asp?SN=41-28593&Submit6=Go |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:04 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 2519 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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