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
Ralph W Egle
Military
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93rd Bomb Group Roll of Honor at Hardwick Airfield Memorial Museum.
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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'.
Killed in Action on 8/1/43 while TDY to 9th AF for Ploesti Raid in B-24 'Lady Jane' 42-40804.
Service
People
Units served with
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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
Aircraft
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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.
Missions
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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...
Associated Place
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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....
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Stratton, NE 69043, USA | 24 November 1917 |
| Enlisted | Omaha, NE, USA | 28 March 1942 |
| Killed in action | Ploiești, Romania | 1 August 1943 |
| Buried | Hitchcock County, NE, USA | 1949 |
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Eden Cemetery |
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Revisions
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| 30 August 2019 11:45:02 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to biography and events |
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| 30 August 2016 23:39:33 | 466thHistorian | Changes to service number, events, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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| 27 September 2014 18:21:54 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 328 |
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