James Brady
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. KIA. Still Listed as Missing In Action (MIA)-Unrecoverable.
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Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA).
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. KIA. Still Listed as Missing In Action (MIA)-Unrecoverable.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. KIA. Still Listed as Missing In Action (MIA)-Unrecoverable.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. KIA. Still Listed as Missing In Action (MIA)-Unrecoverable.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. KIA. Still Listed as Missing In Action (MIA)-Unrecoverable.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. KIA. Still Listed as Missing In Action (MIA)-Unrecoverable.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. KIA. Still Listed as Missing In Action (MIA)-Unrecoverable.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. KIA. Still Listed as Missing In Action (MIA)-Unrecoverable.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Gerald Norman was the sole survivor. Prisoner of War (POW). The nine other men on board most probably drowned in the Bay of Biscay and are listed as Missing In Action (MIA).
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. KIA. Still Listed as Missing In Action (MIA)-Unrecoverable.
Group
The 96th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses to targets across occupied Europe from May 1943 to April 1945.
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Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 8/9/43; Scott 29/9/43; Assigned 339BS/96BG [QJ-H] Snetterton 14/10/43; Missing in Action Bordeaux 5/1/44 with Gilford Pierce, Co-pilot: Walt Cookin, Navigator: Murray Bader, Bombardier: Warren Mullins, Flight engineer/top turret...
5 January 1944
This mission consists of five elements: The first element is a combined force of 131 B-17s are despatched by 1st Bomb Division: 92BG; 303BG; 305BG; 306BG; 379BG; 384BG; and 482BG to bomb the shipyards and industrial areas of Kiel, Germany. 119 are...
Military site : non-airfield
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | New York State | |
Killed in Action (KIA) | France | 5 January 1944 |
in the loss of B-17 #42-39816, into the Bay of Biscay, off the French Atlantic coast |
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Memorialized | Cambridge American Cemetery | |
on the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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07 July 2020 14:21:21 | ED-BB | Changes to events |
Sources | ||
MACR 2013 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
07 July 2020 14:21:11 | ED-BB | Changes to middlename, biography, awards, events, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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MACR 2013 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:20:24 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2013 / MACR 2013, 8th AF Losses, WWII Memorial; Snetterton Falcons pg 82 and 97 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |