Bernard T Healey
Military ROLL OF HONOURHealey played baseball and football at Creighton University for two years before enlisting as an aviation cadet with the Army Air Corps at Fort Crook, Nebraska in November 1941.
His aircraft was shot down 30 December 1942 in B-17 F 42-2975 while serving as Co-Pilot. He is believed to have baled out of the stricken aircraft over the sea and was drowned. Aircraft crashed into the sea near Ile d'Ouessant, France. Killed in Action (KIA).
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 423rd Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 30 December 1942
- Official Description:
Places
![A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group wave to Picture Post Girls in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24471) nicknamed "Four of a Kind" at Thurleigh in December 1942. Image stamped on reverse: '"Picture Post" [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 11 Dec 1942.' [stamp], '238038.' [Censor no.] Handwritten in censor's blue pencil on reverse: 'American Flying Fortress crew are introduced to the girls they will meet at Picture Post Xmas Party.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379028.jpg.webp?itok=6Gc6iR0j)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Ushant, France | 30 December 1942 | Killed when aircraft was attacked by German fighters and crashed into the sea near the Ile d'Ouessant, France. He believed to have baled out into the sea and was drowned. |
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Other Commemorated |
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Madingley Road, Coton, Cambridgeshire CB23 7PH, UK | Commemorated on the Wall of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery. | |
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Born |
Omaha, NE, USA | ||
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Enlisted |
Offutt Air Force Base, NE, USA | Enlisted as an aviation cadet with the Army Air Corps at Fort Crook, Nebraska in November 1941. |
Revisions
Updated personal, and biographical details by courtesy of Gary Bedingfield at :
http://www.baseballsgreatestsacrifice.com/biographies/healey_bernard.ht…
Lee Cunningham 8-Dec-2014. Added Commemoration event, see previous source.
Lee Cunningham 8-Dec-2014. Added SN and KIA event per MACR 15079; edited biography based on "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; added decorations and Commemoration event per American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) record; made connections to Place, Aircraft and Mission within existing information in this database.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs by Bishop and Heys Vol. 1 p 56, MACR 15079