Lawrence Miller Wolf

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Assigned to 358BS, 303BG, 8AF USAAF. 13 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Wiesbaden in B-17 43-37838 'Fearless Fosdick' 15-Aug-44; Mortally wounded in back by 20mm cannon round, A/C crashed near Beane. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 8440



Awards: PH.

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Units served with

Official emblem of the 303rd Bomb Group approved 7 November 1942.

303rd Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Arnold S Litman

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13075742 / O-800906
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

43-37838

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Fearless Fosdick
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Dallas County, TX 11 January 1923 Son of Lawrence August Wolf and Ruth Miller.

Enlisted

Dallas, TX 7 November 1942

Other

Commissioned

Dallas, TX 31 January 1943 Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant.

Died

Wiesbaden, Germany 15 August 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Wiesbaden in B-17 43-37838 'Fearless Fosdick' 15-Aug-44; Mortally wounded in back by 20mm cannon round, A/C crashed near Beane. KIA MACR 8440

Buried

West cemetery Reims 16 August 1944 Buried below starboard wing of B-17, exhumed by enemy and re-buried Reims (West) cemetery 16-Aug-44. Line III, grave 26.

Based

Molesworth 15 August 1944 Assigned to 358BS, 303BG, 8AF USAAF.

Buried

Restland Memorial Park, Dallas, TX Restland Memorial Park Dallas, Dallas County, TX

Other

Memorialised

Beine-Nauroy, France Memorialised on Beine-Nauroy town war memorial. - "In memory of 21-year old 2nd Lt Lawrence M. Wolf Bombardier of the B-17 flying fortress of the 358th Bomb Group USAAF who generously gave his life for France on Tuesday August 15th 1944 at Beine-Nauroy"

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 8440 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database