Minas Philip Glitsis
MilitaryAssigned to to 10th Station Compliment, 8AF USAAF. Customer of Freckleton snack bar, killed by crash of B-24J 42-50291 'Classy Chassis II'. Died non Battle (DNB)
Awards: PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Classy Chassis II
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 490th Bomb Group Base Air Depot 2 832nd Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Cambridge American Military Cemetery
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: BAD-2
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Enlisted |
New York City, NY | 17 November 1942 | New York City New York |
Died |
Freckleton, UK | 23 August 1944 | |
Buried |
25 August 1944 | Cambridge American Cemetery Coton, Cambs, UK Plot E Row 2 Grave 43 | |
Born |
Egypt | ||
Based |
Wendling | 23 August 1944 | Assigned to to 10th Station Compliment, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
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Sources
https://www.fold3.com/image/310770745
https://www.fold3.com/record/86446974-minas-p-glitsis
https://www.fold3.com/record/529898690-minas-p-glitsis
https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=92144
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freckleton_air_disaster
https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=17126
https://laituk.org/B-24%2042-50291.htm
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56290082/minas-p-glitsis#add-to-vc