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Martin Everett Kranick

Military

media-44999.jpeg UPL 44999 2nd Lt Martin Kranick, 546BS, 384BG.

USAAF Photo

Object Number - UPL 44999 - 2nd Lt Martin Kranick, 546BS, 384BG.

Assigned to 546BS, 384BG, 8AF USAAF. Phil MacPhail crew. 30 x combat missions. ETD

Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 384th Bomb Group.

384th Bomb Group

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

A B-17 Flying Fortress (BK-H, serial number 42-37781) nicknamed "Silver Dollar" of the 546th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group goes down after losing its tail. Image via Havelaar. Printed caption on reverse: 'Silver Dollar, a Flying Fortress operating from Grafton Underwood, has its complete tail severed during one of the first 8th Air Force raids on Berlin.' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Berlin missile, BK-H, Fort goes down.'

546th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

People

Phillip R MacPhail

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
Highest Rank: First Lieutenant

Aircraft

Nine men in Air Force uniform posed in two rows in front of a military airplane. Five men standing to the rear and four men kneeling in front.

42-107148

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Dark Angel
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron

42-31045

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Unit: 305th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group

42-31484

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Mairsy Doats
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron 546th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron

B-17 Flying Fortresses nicknamed "London Avenger", nicknamed "Bermondsley Battler", nicknamed "Rotherhithe's Revenge" and nicknamed "Bermondsley" of the 379th Bomb Group, 15 February 1944. Passed for publication 16 Feb 1944. Censor no: 305411. Handwritten caption on reverse: '16/2/44.' Printed caption on reverse: ' CHRISTENS U.S. FORTRESS BOMBER. Feb. 16th, 1944. As an appreciation of £800,000 raised during Bermondsey's Wings for Victory Week., the people of Bermondsey christened a U.S. Fortress bomber "

42-37792

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Eleanor Maureen : Bermondsey
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron 34th Bomb Group 487th Bomb Group 836th Bomb Squadron

42-38013

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Nevada Avenger
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron

Places

Aerial photograph of Grafton Underwood airfield looking north east, Geddington village is on the left, 22 April 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC309. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).

Grafton Underwood

Site type: Airfield
Known as: Grafton Undermud

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	North Bend, OR	23 January 1920	Son of Leslie Martin and Ethel M Kranick.
Enlisted	Omaha, NE	1 April 1942	Omaha, Nebraska
Other Accepted commission		24 June 1943	Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant.
Died	Port Orford, OR	13 March 1963
Buried	Bandon IOOF Cemetery, Bandon, Coos County, OR	17 March 1963	IOOF Cemetery Bandon, Coos County, Oregon
Based	Grafton Underwood		Assigned to 546BS, 384BG, 8AF USAAF.
Other Promotion			Promoted 1st Lieutenant.

Revisions

Date1 Sep 2020 17:45:12

ContributorAl_Skiff

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Sources

https://www.fold3.com/image/193374839
https://www.fold3.com/image/623783610
https://www.fold3.com/image/318706267
https://www.fold3.com/record/84603617-martin-e-kranick
https://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/person.php?PersonKey=6039
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108690346/martin-everett-kranick

Date27 Sep 2014 18:19:42

ContributorAAM

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=…

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