William Meehan
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) 1 August 1943 while on TDY to 9thAF for Ploesti raid in B-24 'Lady Jane' 42-40804
DFC/ AM/ PH
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Carl T Israel
Military
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Lt. P Meehan's crew gathered for a team photo in front of one of the training ships stateside, prior to shipping over to the ETO. All bar one of Lt. P Meehan's crew were KIA at Ploesti, Rumania 1st Aug 43 in B-24 #42-40804 'The Lady Jane' / 'Bertha'.
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93rd Bomb Group Roll of Honor at Hardwick Airfield Memorial Museum.
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Killed in Action on 8/1/43 while TDY to 9thAF for Ploesti raid in B-24 'Lady Jane' 42-40804.
Service
People
Units served with
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93rd Bomb Group
Group
93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 1-March-1942 at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. On 15-May-1942 the Group moved to Ft. Myers, Florida to continue advanced flight training and also to fly anti-submarine patrols over the Gulf of Mexico; they... -
329th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-40804 'The Lady Jane' / 'Bertha'
B-24 Liberator
Crashed near Ploestiori village north of Concordia-Vega refineries 1st Aug 43, 9 KIA, 1 POW . MACR 328.
Associated Place
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Hardwick
Military site : airfield
Planned as an RAF bomber airfield, Hardwick was used first by the 310th Bomb Group, equipped with B-25 Mitchells. In December 1943, the B-24 Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group moved in, and remained until the end of the war, flying over 330 missions....
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Birmingham, Alabama | 3 December 1920 |
| Enlisted | Fort McClellan, Anniston, AL 36201, USA | 31 March 1942 |
| Killed in action | Ploieștiori 107071, Romania | 1 August 1943 |
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Target: Concordia-Vega refineries (Ploesi) |
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| Buried | Birmingham, AL, USA | 1949 |
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Elmwood Cemetery |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 30 August 2019 11:47:36 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to biography and events |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 31 August 2016 01:23:32 | 466thHistorian | Changes to service number, highest rank, events, person associations and place associations |
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100686695 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:05:10 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 328 |
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