William Jerry Dukes

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Object Number - UPL 15038 - William Jerry Dukes

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

385th Bomb Group

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

550th Bomb Squadron

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

Aircraft

42-31370

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron

Places

Great Ashfield

Site type: Airfield

Reedham War Memorial

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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Find A Grave Memorial# 10485805
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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

William Jerry Dukes: Gallery (4 items)

Object number: UPL 31195 - Time Team S06, E08 Reedham Marshes, Norfolk which...

Object number: UPL 15008 - Reedham War Memorial, In the grass, beside the...

Object number: UPL 15009 - In the grass, beside the Reedham War Memorial, is...

Object number: UPL 15038 - William Jerry Dukes