Dwight Odell Foster
Military
UPL 22744
UPL 22744
Crew of B-24 41-29439 shot down on 29 September 1944.
Back row, left to right: Staff Sergeant Owen Killborn, Lieutenant Sheldon Adler, Lieutenant Caulk, Technical Sergeant Paul Miller, Technical Sergeant Samuel Dragoon and Lieutenant Marshall Lewis.
Front row left to right: Staff Sergeant Dwight O Foster, Lieutenant Herbert Minard, Staff Sergeant Thomasset and Staff Sergeant Albert Spencer. Note: Picture was incorectly labeled on Albert Spencer. Should be John R. Spencer.
Also The story is a bit different. It is not known for sure if the plane was shot down. The mission was to transport fuel to tanks in the desert for Patton. John Spencer (Not Albert) and the communications officer were excused from the mission at the last minute granted shore leave privileges. The plane took off but never returned from its mission and crew members from other returning B-24’s reported a large explosion in the sky in the general direction of "Nobody’s Baby". It is not typical for a plane to erupt in an explosion if shot down so it was surmised that the stainless steel gas cans being transported in the fuselage had ignited from static electricity or other means.
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Back row, left to right: Staff Sergeant Owen Killborn, Lieutenant Sheldon Adler, Lieutenant Caulk, Technical Sergeant Paul Miller, Technical Sergeant Samuel Dragoon and Lieutenant Marshall Lewis.
Front row left to right: Staff Sergeant Dwight O Foster, Lieutenant Herbert Minard, Staff Sergeant Thomasset and Staff Sergeant Albert Spencer. Note: Picture was incorectly labeled on Albert Spencer. Should be John R. Spencer.
Also The story is a bit different. It is not known for sure if the plane was shot down. The mission was to transport fuel to tanks in the desert for Patton. John Spencer (Not Albert) and the communications officer were excused from the mission at the last minute granted shore leave privileges. The plane took off but never returned from its mission and crew members from other returning B-24’s reported a large explosion in the sky in the general direction of "Nobody’s Baby". It is not typical for a plane to erupt in an explosion if shot down so it was surmised that the stainless steel gas cans being transported in the fuselage had ignited from static electricity or other means.
Rex Spencer (caption edit)
Dwight O. Foster was a ball turret gunner in a B-24. 466th BG, 787th Sq. Based at Attlebridge near Norwich. Over half his crew were killed in a crash landing in France.
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Gallopin Ghost
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Raeford, NC 28376, USA | 30 December 1924 | |
Enlisted |
Iredell County, NC, USA | 17 February 1943 | |
Died |
Fairbanks, AK, USA | 9 February 2017 | |
Cool Springs, NC 27013, USA |