Roy E Gosline

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Shot down 8 March 1943 in B-24D 41-23784 [NB:R] 'Miss Dianne', 44BG/67BS while serving as Ball TUrret Gunner. The aircraft was attacked and shot down by German fighters near Villers-Ecalles, France while on a mission to bomb the railroad marshalling yards at Rouen, France. Killed in Action (KIA). Stone monument with crew names installed at Villers-Ecalies in 1997. According to Lundy, p. 57 Gosline was a volunteer on the flight normally assigned to the engineering section.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 44th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
The 'semiofficial' insignia of the 44th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Miss Dianne
  • Unit: 44th Bomb Group 67th Bomb Squadron 8th Air Force Finance

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Buried

Rouen, France 8 April 1943 Buried by the Germans in the St. Sever Cemetery at Rouen, France. Other KIA in this crew were also buried there and later inetrred in American Cemeteries in Europe. This may be a case where his remains were repatriated to the United States somethime after the war.

Born

Decator, Alabama

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

Villers-Écalles, France 8 March 1943 Killed when aircraft was shot down and crashed near Villers-Ecalles, France while on a mission to bomb the railroad marshalling yards at Rouen, France.

Revisions

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 31-Jul-2105. Correcting typo in Biography.

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 31-Jul-2015. Added KIA event note per MACR 15570; Edited Summary Biography with A/C model letter, Radio Call Letters and Unit association, added loss detail and target based on "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces", Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE. Also added Buried event per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces", Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.

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ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 15570 / MACR 15570, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol I by Bishop and Hey p.89, 44th BG Roll of Honor and Casualties pp. 56-7 by Lundy / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database