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Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
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Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
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Group
The 466th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Attlebridge, Norfolk, during the last year of the war in Europe. The Group flew 232 missions in the course of the year and celebrated the 100th one by inviting local people onto the base to mark the...
Squadron
B-24 Liberator
B-24 44-10558 was given to a crew of the 491st Bomb Group. Assuming it would become their regular aircraft, the right waist gunner, David Redfern painted the aircraft (with the support of the crew) with the nose art of 'Ma's 'Lil' Angel'.
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B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
Military site : airfield
Attlebridge was constructed for RAF use and completed to that standard in 1942. However, with news that it was to be assigned to the American Air Force, the runways were extended and additional hardstandings and outbuildings constructed for the heavy...
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Detroit, Michigan | 7 April 1917 |
Lived in | Detroit, MI, USA | 1942 |
2340 Tuxedo Avenue |
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Enlisted | Detroit, Michigan | 5 October 1942 |
466th BG Combat Tour | Attlebridge Airfield, UK | 5 January 1945 – 25 April 1945 |
Ground Accident | Attlebridge, Norwich, Norfolk NR9, UK | 28 January 1945 |
Taxied 44-10558 "Ma's Little Angel" off the perimeter track. "I was taxiing at about 10 mph and had just made the turn on the perimeter track just beyond runway 04. It had been snowing off and on all morning and it was absolutely impossible to tell where the paved part of the track ended. I thought I was on the pavement as I was judging by the tracks on the pavement, when suddenly the left wheel dropped into an unmarked soft spot on the edge of the perimeter. The wheel dropped a good 3 feet causing the landing gear to snap off. The prop of #1 engine hit the ground while the left wing tip and nose wheel were also damaged. If that ditch had been properly filled in the plane would have never been damaged." - Lt. Thomas Dilworth, Accident Report dated 5 February 1945 |
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Died | Novi, Michigan | 18 May 2008 |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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29 January 2019 22:55:38 | 466thHistorian | Changes to events |
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https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/62947221/person/3209832... |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
29 January 2019 22:55:00 | 466thHistorian | Changes to events |
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https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=8939&h=4589871&... |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
02 December 2015 01:37:48 | 466thHistorian | Changes to service number, events and aircraft associations |
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466th BG HIstorian |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
30 November 2014 04:29:05 | 466thHistorian | Changes to highest rank, role, biography, events, unit associations and place associations |
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Officers of Attlebridge booklet - 1944 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:26:05 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit roster in the book ATTLEBRIDGE ARSENAL by Wassom & Brassfield, page 345 |