Calman Trevor Estrach

Military

Assigned 652BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Atlantic weather mission 17-Mar-45 in B-17 44-8601; Allah weather flight disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. Believed to have ditched west of St. Eval due to mechanical failure. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 13856.



Awards: AM, PH.

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Units served with

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'

25th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance

People

Robert Clinton Allison

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 652nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33080694
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner

James George Chressanthis

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 652nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32941976
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Aerial Gunner

Robert Henry Clark

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 652nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-779789
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Arthur George Eickhoff

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 652nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37721506
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

John Charles Gerlott

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 652nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33610203
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Aerial Gunner

Aircraft

44-8601

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 652nd Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Norfolk County, MA 8 May 1924 Son of Louis A and Lillian R Estrach.

Enlisted

Providence, RI 5 September 1942 Providence, Rhode Island

Died

17 March 1945

Buried

Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery Coton, Cambs, UK

Based

Watton 17 March 1945 Assigned 652BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF.

Revisions

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Sources

Combat Chronology; Aerial Intelligence of the 8th Air Force, pg 177 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia