James Warren Reid
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
All information correct as on Roll of Honor board
Object Number - UPL 13253 - 93rd Bomb Group Roll of Honor at Hardwick Airfield Memorial Museum.
Assigned to 328BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. 23 x combat missions. Took part in Operation Tidal Wave, the raid on Ploesti on 1-Aug-43, flying aboard B-24 41-23722 'Bomerang'. Failed to Return (FTR) Osnabruck in B-24 42-63982 'Jack Frost'; Hit by flak, spun down and exploded. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 2190
Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), PH.
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14062779 / O-668185
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-?
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
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 |
Laurens, South Carolina, USA | 5 May 1917 | Son of J. Rhett and Minnie [McKittrick] Reid. |
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Enlisted |
Fort Jackson, Columbia, SC | 13 August 1941 | Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina |
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Quakenbruck, Germany | 22 December 1943 | Failed to Return (FTR) Osnabruck in B-24 42-63982 'Jack Frost'; Hit by flak, spun down and exploded. KIA MACR 2190 |
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Buried |
Re-Interred Netherlands American Cemetery Margraten, Netherlands Plot M Row 16 Grave 12 | ||
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Buried |
Laurens City Cemetery, Laurens, SC | Memorialised Laurens City Cemetery Laurens, Laurens County, SC | |
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Based |
Hardwick | 22 December 1943 | Assigned to 328BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
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ABMC; MACR 2190 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2190 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
