William M Annan

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-15669.jpeg UPL 15669 William M Annan

Find A Grave Memorial# 56287404

Object Number - UPL 15669 - William M Annan

Killed when B-17 #43-38137 crashed on takeoff at Woodhall Farm, Sudbury on 15 October 1944.

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Units served with

A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.

486th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

43-38137

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron

Places

Aerial photograph of Sudbury airfield looking south west, the bomb dump is to the upper right of the airfield, 29 February 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC188. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).

Sudbury

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Acton

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Maryland, USA 10 July 1918

Died

Sudbury, Suffolk 15 October 1944

Buried

Plot D Row 6 Grave 7

Revisions

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Added a "-" to the A/C type in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.

Added a "-" to the S/N to aid clarity & consistency.

 

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Combined two entries into a single entry. Record includes information from the following sources:
Combat Sup / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
https://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WW…
http://www.486th.org/Personnel/A.htm
http://www.486th.org/Aircraft/B17Index2.htm
http://www.fold3.com/image/28720937/

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Find A Grave Memorial# 56287404
American Battle Monuments Commission
http://www.usaafdata.com
Eighth Air Force Bomber Stories, Ian McLachlan & Russell J Zorn, ©1991, 2012

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

William M Annan: Gallery (3 items)

Object number: UPL 15414 - On the outside wall of Tesco's at Sudbury.