William Vincent Tumelavich
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Assigned to 703BS, 455BG, 8AF USAAF. 31 x combat missions. ETD
Awards: AM (5OLC), WWII Victory, EAME (3 x Battle Stars).
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 445th Bomb Group
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 445th Bomb Group 701st Bomb Squadron 703rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33507972 / O-2064220
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 445th Bomb Group 703rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11102122
- Highest Rank: Corporal
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 445th Bomb Group 703rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12165374
- Highest Rank: Corporal
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 445th Bomb Group 703rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37534041
- Highest Rank: Corporal
Aircraft
Missions
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Tivetshall
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Carbondale, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA | 14 July 1923 | Son of John and Anna [Bartasavage] Tumelavich. |
Other Drafted |
30 June 1942 | ||
Enlisted Married |
New Cumberland, PA 17070, USA | 17 June 1943 | New Cumberland, Pennsylvania |
Other In military service in USA |
United States | 17 June 1943 - 23 September 1944 | |
Based |
Tibenham | 24 September 1944 - 23 May 1945 | Assigned to 703BS, 455BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Other In military service in USA |
United States | 24 March 1945 - 19 October 1945 | |
Other Left Military Service |
Las Vegas, NV, USA | 19 October 1945 | |
Died |
Hopewell, NJ | 7 February 2005 | |
Buried |
Cumberland County Veterans Cemetery Bridgeton, Cumberland County, NJ | 11 February 2005 | Cumberland County Veterans Cemetery Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey |
Revisions
List of crewmembers who flew with Robert E Conrad
US Veteran's Gravesites via Ancestry
Draft Registration Card via Ancestry
Veteran's Pension Application via Ancestry
Birsic, SO3265 12 Oct 44 & Page 428 in the book 2ND AIR DIVISIONby Turner Publishing Company, 1998 edition (D790.A2S45) / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia