Ray Lester Musgrove

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Assigned to 337BS, 96BG, 8AF USAAF. Milton Shoestring crew, co-pilot on B-17's. Assigned to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Bremen 19-Aug-44 in Mosquito NS625; on H2X mission, A/C apparently went out of control and crashed. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 7949



Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), PH.



ASN: O-680489* or O-670489**

* Noted on MACR 7949

** Noted on MACR's 2377, 2378, 2379, 2380 and 2381.

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Units served with

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'

25th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance
The insignia of the 96th Bomb Group.

96th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Harold Louis Fordham

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 654th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 17062641 / O-678712
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Milton Henry Shoesmith

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 96th Bomb Group 337th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11063679 / O-799082
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

NS625

  • Aircraft Type: Mosquito
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 654th Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Dallas, TX 20 October 1921 Son of Edward Morgan and Mary Esther [Bloys] Musgrove.

Enlisted

23 April 1942 Los Angeles, California

Died

Bremen, Germany 19 August 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Bremen 19-Aug-44 in Mosquito NS625; on H2X mission, A/C apparently went out of control and crashed. KIA MACR 7949

Buried

Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery Coton, Cambs, UK

Based

Watton 19 August 1944 Assigned to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF.
Los Angeles, CA At time of draft registration, employed at Fiberboard Paper Co. at Los Angeles, California

Based

Snetterton Assigned to 337BS, 96BG, 8AF USAAF.

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Removed source information added by Wattonman from biography

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Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.

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MACR 7949

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ABMC / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia