Leslie Richard Walker

Military

Assigned to 711BS, 447BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Berlin; Shot down 29-Apr-44 in B-17 42-97501. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 4253



Awards: AM, PH.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 447th Bomb Group.

447th Bomb Group

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

People

John Bryan Frisbie

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 711th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 38367805
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

John Augustus Hoegen

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 711th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 31083077
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Douglas James Irvine

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: Canadian
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 711th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39616202
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Elmer D Johnson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 711th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 36159477 / O-811210
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Joseph P Kotulak

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 711th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13005271
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner

Aircraft

42-97501

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 711th Bomb Squadron

Missions

327

  • Date: 29 April 1944

322

  • Date: 27 April 1944

315

  • Date: 24 April 1944
A B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29155) nicknamed "Picadilly Commando" of the 446th Bomb Group. First handwritten caption on reverse: '446BG B/24 leaving Ruhr on its way home 22 April 1944.' Second handwritten caption on reverse: '22/4/44, 21,000 Ft. Hamm, smoke screen in distance.'

311

  • Date: 22 April 1944

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Penrose, CO 6 April 1923 Son of Harold Enos and Marguerite Estelle [Gierhart] Walker.

Other

Commissioned

Alexandria AAF, LA 19 June 1943 Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant.

Died

Siestedt, Germany 29 April 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Berlin; Shot down 29-Apr-44 in B-17 42-97501. KIA MACR 4253

Based

Killed in Action (KIA)

Rattlesden 29 April 1944 Assigned to 711BS, 447BG, 8AF USAAF.

Buried

Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial St Avold, France Plot D Row 48 Grave 26

Enlisted

Colorado Springs, CO Colorado Springs, Colorado

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LA Rogers diary and mission cards

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MACR 4253

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MACR 4253

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4253 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database