Marshall Bonner
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Colonel Marshall Bonner
Group Commander
464th Bomb Group
He was KIA on a mission to Vienna 26 July 1944
Group Commander
464th Bomb Group
He was KIA on a mission to Vienna 26 July 1944
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Houston, TX, USA | 17 July 1911 | |
Died |
Floridsdorf, 1210 Vienna, Austria | 26 June 1944 | Colonel Marshall Bonnek was born on July 17, 1911 in Houston, Texas, the son of Thomas Hubbard and Ala Perryman Bonner. He graduated from San Jacinto High School in Houston in 1929 and entered the United States Military Academy in the same year. He graduated from the Academy in June 1933, went through flying training at Randolph and Kelly Fields, receiving his wings in October 1934. On June 2, 1942, at the Army War College, he married Kay Fechet, daughter of Major General J. E. Fechet, former chief of the Air Corps. In February 1944 he left for overseas as Commanding Officer of the 464th Heavy Bomb Group, which he had trained at Pocatello, Idaho. On June 26, 1944 he led his group on a raid on the Shell-Florisdorfer Oil Refinery, at Florisdorf, a suburb of Vienna. His plane was hit by flak and he became missing in action. He was finally declared dead by the War Department on November 12, 1945. He was awarded the Silver Star, Air Medal, and the Purple Heart, all posthumously. He is survived by his wife, Kay Fechet Bonner; his mother; and his sister, Margaret Bonner. |
Other Graduated |
West Point, NY, USA | United States Military Academy Graduated 11th in his class Commissioned 2nd Lt. | |
Buried |
Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial Epinal Departement des Vosges Lorraine, France |
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