Thomas Leo Toolin
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
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UPL 30977
1LT Thomas Leo Toolin
Bombardier
Chaffin & Eccleston Crew
388th BG - 561st BS
KIA 20 December 1943
Bombardier
Chaffin & Eccleston Crew
388th BG - 561st BS
KIA 20 December 1943
Shot down 20 December 1943 in B-17 #4231084 on mission to Bremen. Killed in Action (KIA).
Earlier 24 November 1943 crash landed while on a cross-country training flight in B17#42-37844. RTD
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- Date: 3 November 1943
- Date: 20 October 1943
- Date: 18 October 1943
- Date: 4 October 1943
- Date: 26 September 1943
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Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Enlisted |
Providence, RI, USA | 10 October 1941 | |
Died |
Bremen-Vegesack, Bremen, Germany | 20 December 1943 | |
Buried |
6280 Højer, Denmark | 21 July 1944 | The body of bombardier T.L. Toolin was washed ashore at Emmerlev Klev (maybe about here, overview here). On 21 July 1944 he was buried in the cemetery (in Højer) by the Wehrmacht without ecclesiastical assistance. The rest of the crew, 9 men, appear to have perished." (FAF) |
Born |
Providence, Rhode Island | ||
Buried |
Cranston, RI, USA | Saint Ann Cemetery • Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA Plot Section 21, Lot 1408 |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3154, Losses of 8th & 9th AFs Vol I by Bishop & Hey pp. 381, 429