Donald Verne McCallum

Military
media-13218.jpeg UPL 13218 Boeing B-17 42-31662 SC-B 'Fancy Nancy IV' and crew. 612th BS 401st BG, 8th AF , Deenethorpe, Eng.

LT. Alexander Coxe Stokes (Philadelphia, PA) is on left beneath the engine.

L-R: Lt Alexander C Stokes, Lt Eugene F Lott, Lt Donald V McCallum, Capt Scribner C Dailey.

Object Number - UPL 13218 - Boeing B-17 42-31662 SC-B 'Fancy Nancy IV' and crew. 612th BS 401st BG, 8th AF , Deenethorpe, Eng. LT. Alexander Coxe Stokes (Philadelphia, PA) is...

Assigned to 401BG, 8AF USAAF.



Awards: WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

Ground personnel of the 401st Bomb Group stand with a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31662) nicknamed "Fancy Nancy IV" after fixing her engines. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Another famous Fort and her crew.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Fancy Nancy IV
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Adams County, ID 26 January 1913 Son of Anna V McCallum.

Enlisted

Spokane, WA 25 August 1942

Other

Discharged USAAF

3 December 1945 Honourable discharge.

Died

Bend, OR 17 January 1987
Baker, Baker County, OR

Based

Deenethorpe Assigned to 401BG, 8AF USAAF.

Other

Married

Cannon Beach, OR Married Neva Louise [Wagner] Gould.

Buried

Details unknown, though his wife is interred at Pilot Butte Cemetery, Bend, Deschutes County, OR

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Entry added from the 401st Bomb Group unit history in IWM’s Roger Freeman Collection, printed in 1946.

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