William D Toole

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Killed in Action (KIA) on 4-Mar-43 in B-17F 41-24512 'Rose O' Day', 91BG/322BS while serving as Navigator. The aircraft was attacked repeatedly by German fighters and seen to have #2 engine on fire. The surviving crew was ordered to bale out over the tip of Texel Island, Holland, but most came down in the sea and were lost. The aircraft crashed into North Sea just to the west of the tip of Texel Island, Hoilland.



Air Medal, Purple Heart

Connections

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Units served with

Unofficial emblem of the 91st Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Rose ODay
  • Unit: 91st Bomb Group 322nd Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

Texel, Netherlands 4 March 1943 Killed when aircraft was attacked by fighters and crashed into the North Sea just west of the tip of Texel Island, Holland.

Born

Maryland

Other

Commemorated

Netherlands American Cemetery, AM Begraafplaats 1, 6269 NA Margraten Commemorated on the Wall of the Missing, Netherlands American Cemetery.

Revisions

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 24-Jun-2015. Added Decorations and Commemorated event per American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) records; made connections to Place, Aircraft and Mission within existing website data; Added KIA event per MACR 3721; Edited SUmmay Biography with loss detail and converted dates to military-style signification per "Losses of the 8th & 9th AIr Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE

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ContributorAAM
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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop and Hey, pp. 87-88, MACR 3721