John W Plummer
Military ROLL OF HONOURThis is information and pictures my mother had on her brother Frank W Greene.
2LT John W. Plummer was orginally assigned as the Bombardier on B-17F, #41-24603 "Green Hornet" [BN-Y], 303BG/359BS on 10-Sep-42 at Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas and arrived with the aircraft at Molesworth, UK on 22-Oct-42. Shot down 23 November 1942 in B-17 #41-24568 "Lady Fairweather" while serving as bombardier. Plane crashed in to Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA). Participated in 3 operations (1 abort).
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Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Assigned to Aircraft |
Biggs Field, TX 79918, USA | 10 September 1942 | Assigned as Bombardier of B-17F 41-24603, "Green Hornet", 303BG/359BS at Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas. |
Other Arrived at Station |
Molesworth, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28, UK | 22 October 1942 | Arrived at Molesworth, UK with B-17F 41-24603 "Green Hornet", 303BG/359BS. |
Other Mission #1 2LT John W. Plummer, w/B-17F 41-24603, 303BG/359BS - Aborted |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 17 November 1942 | Assigned as Bombardier on B-17F 41-24603 "Green Hornet" on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St. Nazaire, France but the mission was aborted, no reason given in mission report. RTB OK. |
Other Mission #2 2LT John W. Plummer, w/B-17F 41-24603, 303BG/359BS |
18 November 1942 | Served as Bombardier on B-17F 41-24603 "Green Hornet", 303BG/358BS on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St. Nazaire, France. RTB OK. | |
Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Belle Île, France | 23 November 1942 | Killed when the aircraft was shot down by German aircraft and crashed into the se near Belle-Ile en Mer, France. |
Other Mission #3 2LT John W. Plummer, w/B-17F 41-24568, 303BG/359BS |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 23 November 1942 | Served as Bombardier on B-17F 41-24568 "Lady Fairweather", 303BG/359BS on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St. Nazaire, France. The aircraft was shot down into the sea by German fighters and he was KIA. |
Other Commemorated |
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Madingley Road, Coton, Cambridgeshire CB23 7PH, UK | Commemorated on the Wall of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery. |
Revisions
Added a "#" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" for clarity.
Added a "#" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" for clarity.
Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2015. Added Mission #3 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission Report of 23-Nov-42.
Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2015. Added Mission #2 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission Report of 18-Nov-42.
Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2015. Added Mission #1 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission Reoprt of 17-Nov-42.
Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2015. Added Arrived at Station event per "The B-17 Flying Fortress Story", Roger A. Freeman with David Osborne, historical summary of B-17F 41-24603.
Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2015. Added Assigned to Aircraft event per 303Bg website, Gary Moncur, Historian, per Ellis J. Sanderson crew page.
Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2015. Added assigment with 41-24603 and mission participation to Summary biography per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Ellis G. Sanderson crew page.
Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2015. Made connections to 41-24602 and all mission participations per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission Reprots and crew pages of Ellis J. Sanderson and Arthur E. Reddig.
Lee Cunningham 1-Dec-2014. Edited biography for crash location, added KI A event per MACR 15075; added Commemoration event per American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC) record.
Lee Cunningham 6-Nov-2014. Correction to loss date in description.
Lee Cunningham 6-Nov-2014. Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 15075; American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, MACR 15075 , Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. One by Bishop and Hey, p. 48