James P Haran
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Removed Homer Gentry, who did not die in this crash. According to his headstone application, accessed via ancestry.com, he died a year earlier and was a member of the 705th Squadron, not the 706th.
Object Number - UPL 15063 - Memorial on Green Lane, Redenhall, Suffolk, erected by Peter Kent, who was a boy at the time of the crash.
While approaching the field on return from mission to Regensburg his plane collided with another from his squadron and all on board both planes were killed
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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-24 Liberator
- Unit: 446th Bomb Group 706th Bomb Squadron
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Died |
Green Lane, Harleston, Norfolk IP20 9PS, UK | 11 April 1945 | |
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Born |
Brooklyn, New York | ||
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Buried |
Cambridge Plot E Row 5 Grave 52 |
Revisions
ABMC, Cambridge burial
WWI and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas, accessed at ancestry.com (French - Croix De Guerre, with Bronze Star)
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / History of the 446th BG
