Thomas Allen Montgomery

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Object Number - UPL 65054 - T/Sgt Thomas A. Montgomery

Assigned to 338BS, 96BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) from Berlin in B-17 42-102541 8-May-44; A/C rammed by Me109, exploding due to wing tank fire. KIA. MACR 4574.



Awards: AM (2OLC), PH.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 96th Bomb Group.

96th Bomb Group

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

People

Melvin E Baumgartel

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 96th Bomb Group 338th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13108609 / O-818811
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

John Edward Bedell

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 96th Bomb Group 338th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12046804 / O-676879
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

Abner M Fisch

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 96th Bomb Group 338th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12075947 / O-811604
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Charles Herman Goettling

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 96th Bomb Group 338th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39907604
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

Evert Dean McMonigle

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 96th Bomb Group 338th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18131450
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Aircraft

42-102451

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 96th Bomb Group 338th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Houstonia, MO 5 October 1913 Son of Lewis Randolph and Dixie Deane [Marshall] Montgomery.

Enlisted

Detroit, Michigan 25 March 1941 Detroit, Michigan

Died

Sehlem, near Hildesheim, Germany 8 May 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) from Berlin in B-17 42-102541 8-May-44; A/C rammed by Me109, exploding due to wing tank fire. KIA. MACR 4574

Buried

Sehlem, Germany 9 May 1944 in the Sehlem Cemetery, near Hildesheim, Germany

Based

Killed in Action (KIA)

Snetterton Heath 8 May 1944 Assigned to 338BS, 96BG, 8AF USAAF.

Buried

Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial Re-Interred Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial Plot C Row 6 Grave 12

Buried

Memorial Park Cemetery Sedalia, Pettis County, MO Memorialised Memorial Park Cemetery Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri

Revisions

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Sources

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/147874844

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ContributorED-BB
Changes
Sources

MACR 4574
KU-1756 at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/147874844

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https://www.fold3.com/image/29031437
https://www.fold3.com/image/620303727
https://www.fold3.com/image/310763476?rec=299415494
https://www.fold3.com/record/84341078-thomas-a-montgomery
https://www.fold3.com/record/529854657-thomas-a-montgomery
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56359914/thomas-a-montgomery
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121585269/thomas-a-montgomery

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ContributorAAM
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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4574 / MACR 4574; Unit History Roster, Enlisted Men, as of 01 August 1945 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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Object number: UPL 65054 - T/Sgt Thomas A. Montgomery