Ralph Vincent Shaffer
Military ROLL OF HONOURMissing In Action (MIA) after bailing out near Schoeneck, France from B-24 Ginger #4129177 on 08/26/1944.
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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-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Ginger
- Unit: 446th Bomb Group 706th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Flixton
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other MIA |
26 August 1944 | ||
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Other Declared dead |
Schœneck, France | 26 August 1945 | |
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Born |
Pricedale, PA 15012, USA | Born to a coal miner and his wife in a Pennsylvania coal patch. Moved to Akron Ohio to live with a married sister after his father died. He joined the Army Air Corps after attending some college. | |
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Other Missing In Action (MIA) |
Schœneck, France | 26 August 1944 | Last to bail out of B24 Ginger, chute was seen to open. He was never found. It is possible that he joined up with escaped Russian forced-laborers who roamed the crash area. |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 8471 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database