Waldo C Bruns

Military
media-44954.jpeg UPL 44954 1LT Waldo C. Bruns
Photo Recon Pilot
7th PRG - 13th PRS
KIA - 14 August 1944

Object Number - UPL 44954 - 1LT Waldo C. Bruns Photo Recon Pilot 7th PRG - 13th PRS KIA - 14 August 1944

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: F-5 Lightning
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
An F-5 Lightning of the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group take off from the snowy runway at Mount Farm.
  • Aircraft Type: F-5 Lightning
  • Nicknames: Maxine
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 22nd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
A shark mouth F-5 Lightning nicknamed "The Florida Gator" of the 22nd Photographic Squadron, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group. Handwritten on slide case:"The Florida Gator Mount Farm R. Astrella"
  • Aircraft Type: F-5 Lightning
  • Nicknames: The Florida Gator
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 22nd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: F-5 Lightning
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
  • Aircraft Type: F-5 Lightning
  • Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Sioux City, IA 4 June 1918
Williston, Florida 1 April 1940

Enlisted

Chicago, IL 16 September 1940

Other

7th PRG Combat Tour

Mount Farm Airfield, UK 20 January 1944 - 14 August 1944

Died

Wettringen, Germany 14 August 1944 Shot down by German fighters while flying a photo reconnaissance mission to Sorau, Germany in an F-5C Lightning

Buried

St. Augustine, Florida 30 June 1949 Saint Augustine National Cemetery Saint Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida, USA

Buried

Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial

Revisions

Date
Contributor466thHistorian
Changes
Sources

"Eyes of The Eighth" - Patricia Fussell Keen
page159-160 & 322-361

Date
Contributor466thHistorian
Changes
Sources

Eyes of The Eighth - Patricia Fussell Keen

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

7th Photo Recon Group Master Directory, 6 June 1996 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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