John Homer Erhardt
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
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Photo taken 19 September 2012, Gary Atkins
Object Number - UPL 15009 - In the grass, beside the Reedham War Memorial, is a memorial stone for crew members who died when their B17s collided on 21 February 1944.
Involved in a mid-air collision with another B-17 from the same group on return from operations to airfields in GB on 21 Feb 1944 in B-17G 42-31370 and crashed on Reedham Marshes, Norfolk. Killed in Action (KIA).
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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
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Washington, DC, USA | 9 June 1920 | |
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Enlisted |
Washington, DC, USA | 4 June 1941 | |
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Died |
Reedham, Norwich, Norfolk, UK | 21 February 1944 | |
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Buried |
Arlington, VA, USA | At Arlington National Cemetery Findagrave.com 49178982 |
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Sources
Combat Chronology, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
