John G Cunney

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Took off from Watton at 1500 hours. Failed to return from PR mission to Nijmegen-Eindhoven area in Mosquito with pilot Lt Robert A Tunnell. Lt Tunnell's Mosquito was hit by ground machine-gun fire and crashed on Plantlunne airfield. Killed in Action (KIA) 18-Sep-44.





Awards: AM, PH.

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Units served with

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance

People

Lieutenant Bob Tunnel and Lieutenant Daniel McCarthy of the 25th Bomb Group stand with a Mosquito at Watton that has received flak damage to one of its engines. Printed caption on reverse: '60900 A.C.- Lt. Tunnel and Lt. McCarthy of the 654th Bomb. Sqdn. 25th Bomb Group. standing beside a flak damaged DeHavilland "Mosquito" Reconnaissance. England. August 4, 1944 U.S. Air Force Photo.' The names 'Bob' and 'Daniel' have been handwritten above 'Lt. Tunnel and Lt. McCarthy' respectively. Handwritten caption
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 325th Photographic Reconnaissance Wing 25th Bomb Group 654th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-886174
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: Mosquito
  • Unit: 325th Photographic Reconnaissance Wing 25th Bomb Group 654th Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

18 September 1939

Died

Lünne, Germany 18 September 1944 Failed to return from PR mission to Nijmegen-Eindhoven area in Mosquito with pilot Lt Robert A Tunnel, Lt Tunnell's Mosquito was hit by enemy machine-gun fire and crashed on Plantlunne airfield. Killed in Action (KIA) 18 Sept 44.
Delaware County, PA

Buried

Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery Coton, Cambs, UK

Revisions

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Removed source information added by Wattonman from biography

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Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.

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Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII", Schiffer Publishers, 2011, page 116.
John Hey, Netherlands, personal correspondence.

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AAM DB Entry.
Mosquito Photo-Reconnaissance Units of World War 2 by Martin W Bowman.

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AAM DB Entry.
Mosquito Photo-Reconnaissance Units of World War 2 by Martin W Bowman.

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Combat Chronology

The 25th Bomb Group Book (rcn) in World War II by Norman Malayney / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia