James Terry Bass
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
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Object Number - UPL 13413 - Page 2 of 466th Bomb Group 'Roll of Honor' at All Saints Church, Weston Longville.
Killed in Action (KIA) Shot down by flak and crashed into channel in B-24 Gruesome Goose #4128747
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-699611
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Gruesome Goose
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Enlisted |
Fort Moultrie, SC | 6 December 1940 | |
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Born |
Sumter County, SC | ||
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Buried |
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England Add to Map Plot Plot D Row 4 Grave 18 | ||
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
English Channel | 12 August 1944 | James enlisted in the Army Air Corp 6 Dec 1940 at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina. He’d had 4 years of high school and was semi-skilled in the repair of motor vehicles. He was single without dependents. TSgt Bass was the flight engineer on B24H Liberator 41-28747 “Gruesome Goose”. “Gruesome Goose” while on a mission to bomb the Mourmelon-Sur-Marne Ammunition Dump in France ditched over the Channel with the loss of all 10 on board. It was reported MIA on 12 August 1944 during the mission to Mourmelon-sur-Marne, and an MACR was issued, but no details on the location. The crew of 10 (pilot 2nd Lt Philip R Hammond) were all recovered dead and buried at Madingley. Cambs,. Only the Engineer, T/Sgt J T Bass could be positively identified, the others were buried in a Group Grave, S-6-5. Bass is still there, but the remaining crewmen were taken home for burial in Jefferson Barracks Cemetery, St Louis, Missouri, post-war. Gravesite Details Entered the service from South Carolina. |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7911 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
