Gerald Edwin Murphy
Military ROLL OF HONOURWaist Gunner SSgt Gerald E. Murphy
Hometown: South Bend, IN
Squadron: 565th Bomb Squadron - 389th Bomb Group - 8th Air Force
Service Number : 35166638
Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Pilot 1st.Lt. John B. McCormick - MIA/KIA - Syracuse, NY
Sgt. Murphy was a waist gunner on John McCormick's crew on the B-24D, Vagabond King. He flew on, and survived, Operation Tidal Wave. 1 Aug 1943. Back in the U.K. and the 8th Air Force, he was later shot down by FW-190 fighter planes over the North Sea and killed in action in the B-24D, 42-40787, Vagabond King. The plane crashed into the North Sea (FTR) with all crewmembers killed in action. 10 KIA. 18 November 1943. MACR 2885
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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: 389th Bomb Group 565th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-661952
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 565th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: - Vagabond King
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 565th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Berka, al Birkah
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Cambridge American Military Cemetery
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
South Bend, Indiana, USA | 4 October 1918 | |
Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
North Sea | 18 November 1943 | |
Buried |
Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery Coton, Cambs, UK | ||
Buried |
Pleasant Hill Cemetery Bruce Lake Station, Fulton County, IN | Memorialised Pleasant Hill Cemetery Bruce Lake Station, Fulton County, Indiana |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2885 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database