Arthur Miles Torrey
Military ROLL OF HONOURSnippet from 93rd Bomb Group unit history - see https://www.americanairmuseum.com/media/25119
Assigned to 93BG/330BS, B-24 41-23678 'Big Eagle' while serving as Radio Operator. Killed in Action (KIA) 9-Oct-42. Aircraft attacked by fighters near Dunkirk on the way to the assigned target Lille I/A, France. Direct hits to engine no. 4 and bomb bay area before crashing near Lille. 1 evaded and 3 Prisoner of War (POW)s.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14063517
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16034372 at enlistment, then O-442744
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32174174
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16038095
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16041264 at enlistment, then O-789241
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Big Eagle / Bathtub Bessie
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 9 October 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Pennsylvania | 2 December 1915 | in Elk Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania |
Enlisted |
26 September 1941 | as an Aviation Cadet in the Air Corps in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania | |
Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Dunkirk, France | 9 October 1942 | Killed when aircraft was attacked by fighters. |
Buried |
Originally buried in the Southern Cemetery of Lille, France. Re-interred after the war at Netherlands American Cemetery, Plot C, Row 9, Grave 32. | ||
Warren, Warren County, Pennsylvania |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 16-Nov-2014. Corrected BG association from PURGE; added KIA event.
Lee Cunningham 25-Oct-2014. American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)
ABMC, Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AF by Bishop and Hey p.37 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia