Floyd Junior Fields
Military
USAAF Photo
Object Number - UPL 57143 - 1st Lt Floyd Junior Fields, 306BG
Assigned to 368BS, 306BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Wilhelmshafen in B-17 42-29806 21-May-43; A/C crashed into North Sea. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 16018
Awards: AM, PH.
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-729606
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37181531
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-735370
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32241391
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34059032
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, The Netherlands
![A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group wave to Picture Post Girls in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24471) nicknamed "Four of a Kind" at Thurleigh in December 1942. Image stamped on reverse: '"Picture Post" [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 11 Dec 1942.' [stamp], '238038.' [Censor no.] Handwritten in censor's blue pencil on reverse: 'American Flying Fortress crew are introduced to the girls they will meet at Picture Post Xmas Party.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379028.jpg.webp?itok=6Gc6iR0j)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Born |
Quenemo, KS | 13 May 1917 | Son of Floyd V. and Lonie May [Neill] Field. |
|
Died |
North Sea | 21 May 1943 | Failed to Return (FTR) Wilhelmshafen in B-17 42-29806 21-May-43; A/C crashed into North Sea. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 16018 |
|
Based |
Thurleigh | 21 May 1943 | Assigned to 368BS, 306BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Buried |
Netherlands American Cemetery | Tablets of the Missing Netherlands American Cemetery Margraten, Netherlands |
Revisions
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56298676/floyd-j-field
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 16018
