Russell Edward Rew

Military

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'

458th Bomb Group

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

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

28 December 1923

Enlisted

Tullahoma, Tennessee 5 December 1941 Camp Forrest

Based

Cluntoe 26 May 1944 Assigned with his crew to the 2nd CCT&RS for theatre combat crew training before assignment to the 458th BG

Died

Santa Ana, California 12 August 1984
Winnebago County, Illinois

Based

Horsham St Faith

Revisions

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Corrected date

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http://www.ww2enlistment.org/index.php?page=directory&rec=1938412
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=3693&h=5159531…
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=5180&h=6115632…
SO #142, HQ AAF Station 238, 26 May 1944

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458bg.com / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia