Ben W Bragg
Military ROLL OF HONOURRear L-R: Lt's Noel E. Shoup, Walter E. Ulbricht, Byron F. Clark, James Litherland.
Front L-R: Sgt's Harry Conray Ross, William L. Hostetter Jr, Donald Bernard Harrison, Nick Asvestos, Ben W. Bragg, Robert T. Gribble.
Assigned to 359BS, 303BG, 8AF USAAF. 17 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Bois-Coquered in B-17F 42-5306; Shot down by flak and crashed SW of Abbeville 28-Feb-44. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 2863
Awards: AM (2OLC), PH.
Connections
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 359th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18075216 / O-672887
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 306th Bomb Group 359th Bomb Squadron 367th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Enlisted |
Corpus Christi, TX | 7 March 1939 | Corpus Christi, Texas |
Died |
Abbeville, France | 28 February 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) Bois-Coquered in B-17F 42-5306; Shot down by flak and crashed SW of Abbeville 28-Feb-44. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 2863 |
Buried |
Abbeville WWI cemetery | 3 March 1944 | Interred Abbeville WWI cemetery |
Born |
Nueces County, TX | Enlistment record shows 1855, but he would have been 84yrs old when he enlisted in 1939 !! | |
Buried |
Re-Interred Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial Plot B Row 22 Grave 35 | ||
Based |
Molesworth | 28 February 1944 | Assigned to 359BS, 303BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Springfield, IL | Husband of ?? |
Revisions
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https://www.fold3.com/image/28743291?terms=42-5306
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56426143/ben-w-bragg
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2863, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces