George E Ritter
Military
Photo from Ritter family collection
Object Number - UPL 31745 - George E. Ritter in flight suit
Assigned Aug 1944. 21 Nov 1944, was nursing a bevy of mechanical failures. The crash of Boyd's Boids is a classic in the annals of the 96th. Photogaraphs memorialize the crash as incredible. When one studies the picutres of the flattened and tubular
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Betty Lee Up N Cider Boyd's Bird
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 337th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
George was my father and we were always told growing up that his nickname was Babe.
George Ritter was my uncle. Information regarding his medals/awards from his personal possessions at the time of his death (he had his military awards and insignia framed).
Combat Sup; Snetterton Falcons, pg 187, 204-205, 210 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
