Vance William VanHooser

Military

Assigned to 333BS, 94BG, 8AF USAAF. Winneshiek crew. 23 x combat misions. 4-Oct-43 crash landed on Kent coast in B17 42-3082 'Double Trouble'. Crew returned with S/Sgt Vance W. Van Hooser wounded. Hit in the head by 20mm cannon shell fragments.



Awards: PH, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

A bomber crew of the 94th Bomb Group stand with their B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30200) nicknamed "Slo Time Sally" and a bomb inscribed 'Special delivery to Hitler'. Inscription on bomb reads: 'Special delivery to Hitler, From Peggy of St. Louis.'

94th Bomb Group

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

People

William Sherwood Winneshiek

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 94th Bomb Group 333rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13045907 / O-47676 / O-9337A
  • Highest Rank: Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-3082

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Double Trouble

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Holdenville, OK 30 April 1911 Son of George Isom and Berta L [Samuels] VanHooser.

Enlisted

Tulsa, OK 20 August 1942 Tulsa, Oklahoma

Other

Medical discharge

20 June 1944 Medical discharge.

Died

Holdenville, OK 21 June 2005

Buried

Holdenville Cemetery Holdenville, Hughes County, OK 24 June 2005 Holdenville Cemetery Holdenville, Hughes County, Oklahoma

Based

Bury St Edmunds 4 November 1943 Assigned to 333BS, 94BG, 8AF USAAF.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs by Bishop and Hey p. 305