Robert Nelson Morgan

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

KIA, in crash on 8 June 1944 at Plantation Farm (3/4 mile north from Shippea Hill Station / Burntfen), Cambridgeshire - England (52°26'41"N / 0°24'45"E).



Crew had already taken-off for mission cancelled and was granted permission to remain in

flight for navigation training.



Aircraft touched the ground, 1 mile from the place of crash, where the #4 propellor and parts of the cowlings from #2, 3 and 4 engines were later found. Aircraft left the ground, went into a flat spin to the right and crashed.

42-97132 exploded on contact with the ground, the second time.

RAF Bomb Disposal Flight No 6213 Cambridge disarmed bombs.

AAF accident report: 44-6-8-529.

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Roger William Morgan

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 15332811
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner

Richard J Ray

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18227092
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Curtis Audrey Reynolds

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18189592
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Charles Edward Walkovich

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 31166214
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

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Born

Texas 15 July 1922

Died

Plantation Farm, Burnt Fen, Cambridgeshire 8 June 1944 KIA, in crash at Plantation Farm, Burnt Fen, Shippea Hill Station, Cambridgeshire.

Buried

Nashville National Cemetery 21 April 1949 Initially buried at Cambridge, reinterred with 8 other members of the crew in plot MM 106

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ancestry.com
findagrave memorial #3196472
accident report correspondence dated 24 Oct 1944

Losses of the 8th and 9th Air Forces, volume 3
Stan D Bishop & John A Hey, MBE
Bishop’s Books
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 6NY
©2009

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.388bg.info/Personnel.html