Thomas C Campbell
MilitaryFlew on famous Ploesti raid of 1 Aug '43.
A Romanian historian says, "Si totusi, câtiva dintre pilotii Grupului 389 aveau stagii de zbo stul de îndelungate. Thomas Campbell, copilotul lui Jack Dieterle, ecutase treizeci si cinci ce misiuni cu bombardierul Daisey Mae".
("Still, some of the 389 Group pilots had long-term training. Thomas Campbell, Jack Dieterle's co-pilot, had thirty-five missions with the bomber “Daisey Mae” ") [Ioan Grigorescu, Bine ați venit în infern! (Nemira, 1995) 384. ]
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 566th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 566th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 566th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 566th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer; Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 566th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-728838
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: - The Little Gramper
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 491st Bomb Group 566th Bomb Squadron 852nd Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Dover Plains, New York |
Revisions
Bomber Crewmen Who Flew on Tidal Wave (Lincoln: Nebraska Printing Center, 2002). http://fliphtml5.com/sxwk/nhsh/basic/
Bomber Crewmen Who Flew on Tidal Wave (Lincoln: Nebraska Printing Center, 2002). http://fliphtml5.com/sxwk/nhsh/basic/
Ioan Grigorescu, Bine ați venit în infern! (Nemira, 1995) 384.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ploesti by Dugan & Stewart