Leon Appel
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 466th Bomb Group
Military
Our pilot, Bob Applin, was a natural leader and an excellent pilot. - Barky Hovsepian, R/O
Complete a 35 mission tour
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 466th Bomb Group
30 missions in ETO
Air Medal w/ 4 Oak Leaf Cluster/ DFC
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 466th Bomb Group
Flew 35 missions and 3 fuel haul missions to Patton's army in Spet 1944. Crash landed at Manson after preparing to ditch in channel.
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Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Tail Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Flight Engineer | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Group
The 466th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Attlebridge, Norfolk, during the last year of the war in Europe. The Group flew 232 missions in the course of the year and celebrated the 100th one by inviting local people onto the base to mark the...
Squadron
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
5 October 1944
4 March 1945
18 March 1945
24 March 1945
Military site : airfield
Attlebridge was constructed for RAF use and completed to that standard in 1942. However, with news that it was to be assigned to the American Air Force, the runways were extended and additional hardstandings and outbuildings constructed for the heavy...
Military site : airfield
Built for Royal Naval Air Service use in the First World War, it was both an RAF and Fleet Air Arm base from 1918-50, and after the war a USAF Strategic Air Command base from 1950-51, a United States Air Forces Europe base from 1950-58, an RAF station...
Event | Location | Date |
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Lived in | Keene, NH, USA | 1942 |
114 Marlboro Street |
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466th BG Combat Tour | Attlebridge, Norwich, Norfolk NR9, UK | 5 October 1944 – 24 March 1945 |
Mission | Manston, Ramsgate, Kent CT12, UK | 21 February 1945 |
Received a flak hit on #2 engine. Landed at an emergency field in France. Ground personnel there would only allow them a small amount of fuel and then made them take off. Flying at 1200 feet at the Channel coast small arms fire knocked out #1 engine and the prop couldn't be feathered. Too low to bail out, being trailed by an RAF crash boat across the Channel, the crew cranked down the landing gear by hand and the pilots crash landed successfully at RAF Manston. Found out later we had overflown Dunkirk at 1200 feet, thus the huge amount of small arms fire. |
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Died | 1971 |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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18 September 2016 20:20:18 | 466thHistorian | Changes to events |
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"Attlebridge Notes" - 1975 466th BGA Register |
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02 August 2016 01:01:52 | 466thHistorian | Changes to aircraft associations |
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466th BG Archives - 4 March 1945 mission formation plan |
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12 April 2015 03:44:37 | 466thHistorian | Changes to aircraft associations and mission associations |
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466th BG Historian |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
12 April 2015 03:04:44 | 466thHistorian | Changes to biography and events |
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466th BG Historian |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
19 February 2015 20:19:36 | 466thHistorian | Changes to biography and events |
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466th BG Historian |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
01 December 2014 18:22:22 | 466thHistorian | Changes to highest rank, role, events, unit associations and place associations |
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Officers of Attlebridge booklet - 1944 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:23:24 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit roster in the book 'Attlebridge Arsenal' by Wassom & Brassford, page 343 |