Pharis E Weekley | American Air Museum in Britain

Lt. P Meehan's crew gathered for a team photo in front of one of the training ships stateside, prior to shipping over to the ETO. All bar one of Lt. P Meehan's crew were KIA at Ploesti, Rumania 1st Aug 43 in B-24 #42-40804 'The Lady Jane' / 'Bertha'.

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93rd Bomb Group Roll of Honor at Hardwick Airfield Memorial Museum.

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2LT Pharis E. Weekley Navigator William E. Meehan, Jr. Crew 93rd BG KIA 1 August 1943 Operation Tidal Wave

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Killed in Action 1 August 1943 on Ploesti raid while TDY to 9thAF in B-24 'Lady Jane' 42-40804.

DFC/ AM/ PH

Service

William Meehan

Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) 1 August 1943 while on TDY to 9thAF for Ploesti raid in B-24 'Lady Jane' 42-40804 DFC/ AM/ PH

93rd Bomb Group

Group
93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 1-March-1942 at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. On 15-May-1942 the Group moved to Ft. Myers, Florida to continue advanced flight training and also to fly anti-submarine patrols over the Gulf of Mexico; they...
329th Bomb Squadron

Squadron

42-40804 'The Lady Jane' / 'Bertha'

B-24 Liberator
Crashed near Ploestiori village north of Concordia-Vega refineries 1st Aug 43, 9 KIA, 1 POW . MACR 328.

Operation Tidal Wave

1 August 1943
Operation TIDAL WAVE. B24D Liberators attack the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania. The bombers flew low to avoid radar detection and dropped time delayed bombs. Out of the 177 B-24s that took part in the raid 167 managed to attack their targets. 57 B...

Hardwick

Military site : airfield
Planned as an RAF bomber airfield, Hardwick was used first by the 310th Bomb Group, equipped with B-25 Mitchells. In December 1943, the B-24 Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group moved in, and remained until the end of the war, flying over 330 missions....

Event	Location	Date
Born	Florida	18 June 1922
Lived in	Clewiston, FL 33440, USA	1942
Enlisted	MacDill Air Force Base, 6801 S Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa, FL 33621, USA	27 March 1942
Killed in action	Ploieștiori 107071, Romania	1 August 1943
Lt. Weekely appears on Tablets of the Missing at Florence American Cemetery Florence, Italy as MIA. (Find A Grave Memorial# 563673010). He is the only member of the "LADY JANE" crew who's remains were not recovered. His Find A Grave Memorial Bougainvillea Cemetery Avon Park Highlands County Florida, USA is a Cenotaph. 2nd./Lt. Pharis E. Weekley DFC KIA Squadron: 329TH 93rd BOMB GROUP, Hometown: Florida Service# O-673652 Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal Pilot 1st./Lt. William E. Meehan, DFC KIA
Buried		1945
No Known Grave Florence American Cemetery and Memorial Florence Città Metropolitana di Firenze Toscana, Italy Plot: Tablets of the Missing at Florence American Cemetery Florence, Italy

Date	Contributor	Update
30 August 2019 11:53:34	general ira snapsorter	Changes to biography and events
Sources
Ploesti Sortie Reports, 93rd Bomb Group
Date	Contributor	Update
31 August 2016 01:09:38	466thHistorian	Changes to awards, events, person associations, place associations and mission associations
Sources
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=36100880
Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:21:27	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
ABMC MACR 328 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia