Military
Crew #711 Norman C. Flynn Crew 466th BG - 787th BS Standing Left to Right: Wade Hull (NG), Lloyd Garrison (N), Norman Flynn (P), Lowell Bruhns (B), Mark Fortune (CP) Kneeling Left to Right: Howard Greer (TG), Harry Miller (R/O), unindentified person, William Lloyd (WG), Vern Gottschalk (WG) This crew had a relatively short, but eventful combat tour. A combat tour that lasted 16 days included, on their first mission, having their a/c seriously damaged by a flak burst that possibly detonated a just released bomb. Flynn managed to bring back "Oh Mona" to crash landing at Attlebridge. On 13 April 1944, flying with two fill-in gunners, the Flynn a/c was again seriously damaged by flak over the target forcing Flynn to make for Switzerland, interning the crew.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
B-24H #42-52343 'Oh Mona' ran off the runway on return from a mission to Biarritz airfield, FR on 27 Mar 1944. RTD. Shot down 13 April 1944 in B-24 #4252567. Landed in Switzerland. Interned.
Group
The 466th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Attlebridge, Norfolk, during the last year of the war in Europe. The Group flew 232 missions in the course of the year and celebrated the 100th one by inviting local people onto the base to mark the...
Squadron
B-24 Liberator
22 March 1944
The German aviation industries at Oraneinburg and Basdorf were the intended primary target for this mission but dense cloud cover prevented the attack on these targets. The secondary target of Berlin, Germany and surrounding Targets of Opportunity (TOs...
13 April 1944
Military site : airfield
Attlebridge was constructed for RAF use and completed to that standard in 1942. However, with news that it was to be assigned to the American Air Force, the runways were extended and additional hardstandings and outbuildings constructed for the heavy...
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Milwaukee, WI, USA | 13 February 1917 |
| Lived in | Milwaukee, WI, USA | 1942 |
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2720 N. Newhall Street |
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| Crash Landed/Interned | Dübendorf, Switzerland | 13 April 1944 |
| Died | Boulder Junction, WI 54512, USA | 8 July 1988 |
| Buried | Boulder Junction, WI 54512, USA | 11 July 1988 |
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Cemetery of the Pines |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 27 November 2015 00:11:10 | 466thHistorian | Changes to middlename, service number, highest rank, role, events, unit associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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466th BG Historian |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:19:22 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit roster in the book ATTLEBRIDGE ARSENAL by Wassom & Brassfield, p 343 |
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