Roy E Caver
Military ROLL OF HONOURKilled in Action (KIA) ; B-17 'Magnificent Obsession' #4338068
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Magnificent Obsession
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 850th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Brome
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Died |
19 March 1945 | German document called "Nachweis über Verstorbene Angehörige der Vereinten Nationen in den Lazaretten Zu Herborn" (Identification of died memebers of the United Nations at the mitlitary hospitals at Herborn) indicates that caver died on March 19th 1945. However, his grave stone dated the 28th March 1945. He was exhuminated on January 16th 1946 and brought to Margarten / Netherlands | |
Born |
Dallas, Texas, USA | ||
Other Wounded in Action (WIA) |
Germany | 9 March 1945 | Wounded during the belly landing of his B-17 and got POW. |
Revisions
ContributorClaudio Becker
Changes
Sources
German Documents of the military hospital at Herborn, contact with Lloyd Wells, American War Grave Commision; Book "Luftkrieg über dem Dillgebiet" page 275 following
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 12947 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database