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Assigned to 742BS, 455th BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Bucharest, Romania in B-24 41-28640; Crashed Draconesti, Romania 21-Apr-44 Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 4387
Awards: SS, AM (2OLC), PH.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 455th Bomb Group
Assigned to 742BS, 455th BG, 15AF USAAF. Meriwether Jones crew. 20+ combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Bucharest, Romania in B-24 41-28640 'Raunchy'; Crashed Draconesti, Romania 21-Apr-44 Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 4387
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 455th Bomb Group
Assigned to 742BS, 455th BG, 15AF USAAF. Meriwether Jones crew. 20+ combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Bucharest, Romania in B-24 41-28640 'Raunchy'; Crashed Draconesti, Romania 21-Apr-44 Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 4387
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 455th Bomb Group
Assigned to 742BS, 455th BG, 15AF USAAF. 20+ combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Bucharest, Romania in B-24 41-28640 'Raunchy'; Crashed Draconesti, Romania 21-Apr-44 Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 4387
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 455th Bomb Group
Assigned to 742BS, 455th BG, 15AF USAAF. Meriwether Jones crew. 20+ combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Bucharest, Romania in B-24 41-28640 'Raunchy'; Crashed Draconesti, Romania 21-Apr-44 Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 4387
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Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 455th Bomb Group
Assigned to 742BS, 455th BG, 15AF USAAF. Meriwether Jones crew. Failed to Return (FTR) Bucharest, Romania in B-24 41-28640; Crashed Draconesti, Romania 21-Apr-44 Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 4387
Awards: DFC, AM (2OLC), PH.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 455th Bomb Group
Assigned to 742BS, 455th BG, 15AF USAAF. Meriwether Jones crew. 20+ combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Bucharest, Romania in B-24 41-28640 'Raunchy'; Crashed Draconesti, Romania 21-Apr-44 Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 4387
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Military | Technical Sergeant | Flight engineer / Top turret | 455th Bomb Group
Assigned to 742BS, 455th BG, 15AF USAAF. 20+ combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Bucharest, Romania in B-24 41-28640 'Raunchy'; Crashed Draconesti, Romania 21-Apr-44 Wounded by 20mm cannon shrapnel and burnt in fire. Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 4387...
Military | Master Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 455th Bomb Group
Assigned to 742BS, 455th BG, 15AF USAAF. Meriwether Jones crew. 20+ combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Bucharest, Romania in B-24 41-28640 'Raunchy'; Crashed Draconesti, Romania 21-Apr-44 Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 4387
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-pilot | 455th Bomb Group
Assigned to 742BS, 455th BG, 15AF USAAF. Meriwether Jones crew. 20+ combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Bucharest, Romania in B-24 41-28640 'Raunchy'; Crashed Draconesti, Romania 21-Apr-44 Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 4387
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The Fifteenth Air Force was one of two Strategic Air forces in Europe, along with the Eighth Air Force.
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Group
The group was activated July 1943 with four essentially stand-alone bomb squadrons: 740th, 741st, 742nd, and 743rd. After a somewhat nomadic training regimen with dilapidated equipment, the pieces of the group came together at Langley, VA in October...
B-24 Liberator
Assigned to 742BS, 455th BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Bucharest, Romania with Meriwether Jones crew; Crashed Draconesti, Romania 21-Apr-44 8 x POW, 2 x KIA MACR 4387
Military site : airfield
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| Born | Richmond, VA | 8 May 1920 |
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Son of Roy Meriwether and Caroline Talbott [Armistead] Jones. |
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| Based | San Giovanni | 1943 – 21 April 1944 |
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Assigned to 742BS, 455th BG, 15AF USAAF. |
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| Died | Dracesti, Romania | 21 April 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) Bucharest, Romania in B-24 ; Crashed Draconesti. Romania KIA MACR 4387 |
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| Buried | Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial | 1946 |
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Re-Interred |
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| Buried | Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, VA | 1948 |
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Memorialised |
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| 23 October 2020 20:12:12 | Al_Skiff | Created entry with surname, firstname, nationality, service number, highest rank, role, biography, events, unit associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/28639525 |
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