Ward Warren Kirkpatrick
Military ROLL OF HONOURIWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Assigned to 427BS, 303BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down 15-May-43 in B-17 42-29481. Plane crashed into North Sea. Killed in Action (KIA).
Awards: AM (2OLC), PH.
Connections
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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: 303rd Bomb Group 427th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16016125 / O-412107
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 427th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-424792
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: S For Sugar
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 427th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 427th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: No 11 Combat Crew Replacement Center No 1 Combat Crew Replacement Center 303rd Bomb Group 427th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 15 May 1943
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Cambridge American Military Cemetery
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Kalispell, Montana | 4 September 1924 | Son of Warren Captain and Vivian Ellen [O'Leary] Kirkpatrick. |
Enlisted |
Missoula, MT | 28 December 1941 | Missoula, Montana |
Died |
North Sea W of Scharnhorn Island | 15 May 1943 | Just West of Scharnhorn Island. Killed in Action (KIA) |
Buried |
Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery Coton, Cambs, UK | ||
Based |
Polebrook | 15 May 1943 | Assigned to 427BS, 303BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Missions, 'Hagenbuch crew' connection, description of location of death: https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cm…
Aircraft 'S-For Sugar' added: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/024.pdf
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 15515 / MACR 15515 Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I p. 121 by Bishop and Hey, NARA, ABMC,
href="http://303rdbg.com/rost-kl.html#K">http://303rdbg.com/rost-kl.html#K> / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database