Gerald Leslie Barker
Military
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UPL 7379
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Flew 35 missions beginning March 1944 through D-Day
AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster/ DFC
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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: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | 21 June 1918 | |
Armagh, PA | 16 October 1940 | ||
Other 466th BG Combat Tour |
Attlebridge Airfield, UK | 23 March 1944 - 23 June 1944 | |
Died |
Pennsylvania | 21 March 2018 | |
Buried |
Williamsburg, PA | 24 March 2018 | Presbyterian Cemetery Williamsburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania, USA |
Seward, PA 15954, USA | Route #1 |
Revisions
Contributor466thHistorian
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Sources
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/3147/images/41226_2421…
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190389534/gerald-l.-barker
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2238/images/44033_10_0…
"Attlebridge Arsenal" - Brassfield & Wassom, page 68
Contributor466thHistorian
Changes
Sources
Officers of Attlebridge Booklet - 466th BG publication 1945
Attlebridge Arsenal - page 68
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self