Herbert Winthrop Brown
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Rear: Joe Schreppel (Rear far left), Parker Crabtree, Larry Stokes, James Brown, Olin Wieneke.
Front : Paul Sommers, Henry Walker, Hugh McClatchey, Herb Brown.
USAAF Photo
Object Number - UPL 57842 - Sommer crew. 385BG. Rear: Joe Schreppel (Rear far left), Parker Crabtree, Larry Stokes, James Brown, Olin Wieneke. Front : Paul Sommers, Henry...
Assigned to 548BS, 385BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Regensburg in B-17 42-5886 'Jolly Roger' 17-Aug-43; A/C crashed 2 km SW of Wosnadrecht, Netherlands. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 387A
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: 389th Bomb Group 567th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: The Jolly Roger
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, The Netherlands
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
20 January 1920 | Son of Harry Frank and Nellie May [Guptill] Brown. | |
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Enlisted |
Manchester, New Hampshire | 21 January 1942 | EnlistedManchester, New Hampshire |
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Based |
Great Ashfield, UK | 1 January 1943 - 17 August 1943 | Assigned to 548BS, 385BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Died Killed in Action (KIA) |
17 August 1943 | Shot down 17-Aug-43 in B-17 42-5886 'The Jolly Roger'. | |
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Buried Tablets of the Missing |
1 January 1946 | Tablets of the Missing Netherlands American Cemetery Margraten, Netherlands | |
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Buried Memorialised |
New Pine Grove Cemetery Raymond, New Hampshire | 1 January 1948 | MemorialisedNew Pine Grove CemeteryRaymond, New Hampshire |
Revisions
https://www.fold3.com/image/653178168
https://www.fold3.com/record/83376301/herbert-w-brown-us-wwii-army-enlistment-records-1938-1946
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118765617/herbert-w-brown
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56297143/herbert-winthrop-brown
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/138712264?objectPage=1148
Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia ;
- MACR 387A
Combat Sup/Ind. Personell File / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
