William Wade Witham

Military

Assigned to 526BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 25 mission club. 22 x combat mission. ETD.





Alarms: DFC, AM, PH, WWII Victory, EAME

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Units served with

People

Aircraft

42-30237

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Stump Jumper
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group Base Air Depot 1 524th Bomb Squadron
Ground personnel watch a B-17 Flying Fortress (FR-M, serial number 42-30298) nicknamed "Ragin' Red II" of the 379th Bomb Group start up in snow at Bassingbourn, January 1945. Image by William D "Bill" Pulliam, 91st Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: 'Ragin' Red 379th FG B-17 F Bassingbourn 1/45. Stop a/c 66fw.'

42-30298

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Tender Tit Tillie / Ragin' Red II
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 487th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron 837th Bomb Squadron

42-3300

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Sanford, VA 9 July 1917

Enlisted

Philadelphia, PA 18 September 1940 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Died

Smithfield, NC 11 July 2010

Buried

Brier Creek Memorial Gardens, Raleigh, Wake County, NC 15 July 2010 Brier Creek Memorial Gardens Raleigh, Wake County, NC
Philadelphia, PA

Based

Kimbolton Assigned to 526BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF.

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https://www.fold3.com/image/541650221
https://www.fold3.com/record/83721414-william-w-witham
https://www.fold3.com/record/282788434-william-w-witham
http://8thairforce.com/members/missionsflownby.asp?perIdentification=24…
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/161204994/william-w-witham

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum Membership List, July 2000