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Wallace Edward Habenicht

Military

media-40489.jpeg UPL 40489 TSGT Wallace E. Habenicht
Flight Engineer
Darrell Boucher Crew
453rd BG - 735th BS

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Object Number - UPL 40489 - TSGT Wallace E. Habenicht Flight Engineer Darrell Boucher Crew 453rd BG - 735th BS

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Units served with

Colonel Larry Thomas of the 453rd Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Col Larry Thomas 453BG.'

453rd Bomb Group

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

Airmen of the 458th Bomb Group gather outside a hangar after a mission. Image via Lieutenant Vincent Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Intill smoke cigars, 753rd Hangar & operations. Kania W/O cap, Cullet W/ Cap, Vincent with cigar.'

735th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

People

Darrell Arthur Boucher

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 735th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: O-816778
Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
Role/Job: Pilot

Ralph L Miller

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 735th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: O-698896
Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
Role/Job: Bombardier

Aircraft

42-110078

Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
Nicknames: Shoo-Shoo Baby
Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 735th Bomb Squadron

Places

Cluntoe

Site type: Airfield

Aerial photograph of Old Buckenham airfield looking east, the bomb dump is upper left, the technical site and sick quarters are below the airfield, 9 November 1943. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC73. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).

Old Buckenham

Site type: Airfield

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	King County, Washington	28 May 1923
Enlisted	Tacoma, Washington	14 January 1943
Based	Cluntoe	26 May 1944	Assigned with crew to CCRTS for theatre combat crew training.
Died	Sun City West, AZ	13 November 2010
	Ravensdale, Washington
Buried	Kent, Washington		Tahoma National Cemetery Kent, King County, Washington, USA Plot SECTION F ROW B SITE 32

Revisions

Date1 Nov 2019 01:27:44

Contributor466thHistorian

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Sources

http://www.ww2enlistment.org/index.php?page=directory&rec=7485903
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179729397
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SO#142, HQ AAF Station 238, 26 May 1944

Date27 Sep 2014 18:26:41

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / The Liberator Men of Old Buc

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