Lee E Hoskins

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Black and white portrait of man, facing straight on, wearing a uniform consisting of a dark shirt and light colored tie. There is a WWII-era badge of silver wings pinned above the left-side shirt pocket. The man is looking off to the side of the viewer and is smiling UPL 60702 UPL 60702 Lee E. Hoskins, 2D Lt., 457th BG

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Object Number - UPL 60702 - Lee E. Hoskins, 2D Lt., 457th BG

Shot down by fighters and crashed W of Landau, GR on a mission to Augsberg on 25 Feb 1944 in B-17G #42-97457. Killed in Action (KIA).

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Units served with

Unofficial emblem of the 457th Bomb Group.

457th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-97457

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron

Places

The mission board of the 457th Bomb Group. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-299-2-457)(16/5/45)(Op's Board's).'

Glatton

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Connington

Events

Event Location Date Description

Died

25 February 1944

Born

Hamilton, Ohio, USA

Buried

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

Germany 25 February 1944

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1993 457th BGA Roster, MACR 2918, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2918 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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Black and white portrait of man, facing straight on, wearing a uniform consisting of a dark shirt and light colored tie. There is a WWII-era badge of silver wings pinned above the left-side shirt pocket. The man is looking off to the side of the viewer and is smiling

Object number: UPL 60702 - Lee E. Hoskins, 2D Lt., 457th BG