Waldo C Bruns
Military
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UPL 44954
1LT Waldo C. Bruns
Photo Recon Pilot
7th PRG - 13th PRS
KIA - 14 August 1944
Photo Recon Pilot
7th PRG - 13th PRS
KIA - 14 August 1944
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: F-5 Lightning
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
- Aircraft Type: F-5 Lightning
- Nicknames: Maxine
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 22nd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
- 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
- Site type: Airfield
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
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Changes
Sources
"Eyes of The Eighth" - Patricia Fussell Keen
page159-160 & 322-361
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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