Louis Martin LeFevre
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Object Number - UPL 23909 - B-17 tail gunner S/Sgt Louis M LeFevre 562BS, 388BG, 8AF.
Assigned to 562BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot up by flak over the target and exploded and crashed near Uitgeest, Holland on return from a mission to Brunswick on 10 Feb 1944 in B-17G 42-31115 'Hell's Bells'. Killed in Action (KIA).
AWards: DFC, AM (3 OLC), PH.
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Tom Paine
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 389th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hells Belles
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 447th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Died |
1911 Uitgeest, Netherlands | 10 February 1944 | Shot up by flak over the target and exploded and crashed near Uitgeest, Holland on return from a mission to Brunswick on 10-Feb-44 in B-17G 42-31115 'Hell's Bells'. Killed in Action (KIA). |
| Los Angeles, CA, USA | |||
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Buried |
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Based |
Knettishall | 10 February 1944 | Assigned to 562BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Born |
Los Angeles County, CA, USA |
Revisions
ContributorAl_Skiff
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Sources
ABMC, MACR 2348, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
