John G Cunney
Military ROLL OF HONOURTook 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
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
- Unit Hierarchy: Wing
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- 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
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Cambridge American Military Cemetery
- Site type: Airfield
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
Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.
Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII", Schiffer Publishers, 2011, page 116.
John Hey, Netherlands, personal correspondence.
AAM DB Entry.
Mosquito Photo-Reconnaissance Units of World War 2 by Martin W Bowman.
AAM DB Entry.
Mosquito Photo-Reconnaissance Units of World War 2 by Martin W Bowman.
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