Joined Sqd 3-Aug-42. ETO/Flight Echelon 2-Oct-42. WIA 6-Dec-42 (Abbeyville). DS/Tunis 16-Sep-43. Trans/Group HQ.
Failed to Return (FTR) as an Observer to Agathe d' Aliermont V1 site mission in B-24J 42-99970 'Liberty Belle' 21-Jan-44; A/C took a direct hit in bomb bay. Baled out of A/C over French coast. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 8174
Awards: AM, PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Service
People
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Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs
Assigned to 67BS, 44BG, 8AF USAAF. 25 x combat missions. Pilot on Agathe d' Aliermont V1 site mission in B-24J 42-99970 'Liberty Belle' 21-Jan-44; RTD. MACR 8174.
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Units served with
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Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Group
The 44th Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 15-January-1942 at McDill Field, Florida and equipped with B-24Cs. The Group moved to Barksdale Field, Louisiana and acted as a training unit for the 90th 93rd and 98th Bomb Groups and flew anti...
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Aircraft
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B-24 Liberator
Assigned to 67BS, 44BG, 8AF USAAF. Hit by flak on mission to V-1 sites at Agathe d' Aliermont, France on 21-Jan-44. Flak hit in bomb bay, nose turret, ball turret, starboard wing and taking out #1 & 2 engines leaving #3 on fire. 3 x crew baled out over...
Missions
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21 January 1944
This mission is directed at 36 V-Weapon sites (34 in the Pas-de-Calaise area and 2 in the Chrebourg area of France) 24 of these are bombed successfully. All three Bomb Divisions participate in the attacks and the bomber gunners claimed 5-1-2 of...
Associated Place
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Military site : airfield
Shipdham was built in 1941-1942, the first US heavy bomber airfield in the English county of Norfolk. It was a standard design, with T2-type hangars and a domestic site dispersed to the south east. Improvements were carried out to increase the number...
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Events
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Location |
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Born |
Lancaster County, NE |
24 July 1921 |
Son of Lee Harold and Bess E [Badgett] Ager.
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Lived in |
Seattle, WA |
1942 |
Enlisted |
Seattle, WA |
10 January 1942 |
Based |
Shipdham |
8 March 1942 – November 1943 |
Assigned to 67BS, 44BG, 8AF USAAF.
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Based |
Shipdham |
November 1943 – 21 January 1944 |
Transferred to HQ, 44BG, 8AF USAAF.
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Baled out POW |
Vicinity Boulogne |
21 January 1944 |
Failed to Return (FTR) Agathe d' Aliermont V1 site mission in B-24J 42-99970 'Liberty Belle' 21-Jan-44; A/C took a direct hit in bomb bay. Baled out of A/C over French coast. POW. MACR 8174
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Prisoner of War (POW) |
Barth, Germany |
21 January 1944 – May 1945 |
Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I.
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Died |
Kent, WA |
31 December 1995 |
Buried |
Kane Cemetery, Bainbridge Island, WA |
January 1996 |
Kane Cemetery
Bainbridge,
Kitsap County, WA
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