William Jerry Dukes
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William Jerry Dukes
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Involved in a mid-air collision with another B-17 from the same group on return from operations to airfields in GB on 21 Feb 1944 in B-17G 42-31370 and crashed on Reedham Marshes, Norfolk. Killed in Action (KIA).
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Collison, IL, USA | 11 February 1921 | |
Enlisted |
Fort McClellan, Anniston, AL, USA | 17 July 1942 | |
Died |
Reedham, Norwich, Norfolk, UK | 21 February 1944 | |
Buried |
Potomac, IL, USA | At Potomac Cemetery Findagrave.com 10485805 |
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Sources
Combat Chronology Supplement p. 534, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia