LWG, Canelake crew. 381st BG, 534th BS. Shot down on 20 December 1943 in B-17 #42-5845 'Whale tail II'. Mission #51 to the submarine pens at Bremen, Germany. MACR 1724. Killed in Action. Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge AMC.



Sgt. Thomas Phillips was the son of a school teacher and listed his profession as a tool and die setter. The Pittsburgh, PA resident enlisted just eight days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was survived by his parents and a young brother.