Leland G Griffith

Military
media-7288.jpeg UPL 7288 CAPT Leland Griffith (Right)
753rd BS Operations Officer - Command Pilot
458th BG

466th BG Historian

Object Number - UPL 7288 - CAPT Leland Griffith (Right) 753rd BS Operations Officer - Command Pilot 458th BG

Killed in Action (KIA) was command pilot on PFF plane 'Liberty Bell' that had a mid air collision while assembling over the base before going on mission. All aboard Killed in Action (KIA) The plane was from the 466th BG

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'

458th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-51134

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Liberty Belle
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Died

1 September 1944

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Sources

Accident report 035 & Page 276 of the book LIBERATORS OVER EUROPE by Mackay, Bailey & Scorza, D790G458 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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