Walter Peck
Military | Captain | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
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Conly J Eagle
Military
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B-17G-70-VE #44-8549 "Just Joyce" Code: A 388th BG - 562nd BS PFF equipped radar lead ship Captain Conly J. Eagle - Bombardier
Service
People
Units served with
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388th Bomb Group
Group
The 388th Bomb Group flew strategic bombing mission from Knettishall, Suffolk from June 1943 to the end of the war. During this time, though, detachments were sent to Fersfield, Norfolk to conduct Aphrodite missions. In these Aphrodite missions veteran... -
562nd Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-31242 Patty Jo
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 7/10/43; Gr Island 17/10/43; Gt Falls 23/10/43; Assigned 563BS/388BG Knettishall 9/11/43; target Berlin 19/5/44 with Don Salles, Co-pilot: Homer Andrews, Navigator: Jack Barcus, Bombardier: Tom Matthews, Flight engineer/top turret... -
42-97943
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 11/4/44; 1SAG Langley 18/5/44; Dow Fd 5/7/44; Assigned 560BS/388BG Knettishall 6/7/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 27/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 2/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA)... -
44-8234
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Dallas 17/7/44; Hunter 18/8/44; Dow Fd 18/9/44; Assigned 562BS/388BG Knettishall 20/9/44; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 29/12/45. -
44-8540 Round Trip
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 11/10/44; Hunter 1/11/44; with Paul Quinn force landed Dow Fd 18/11/44; Assigned 339BS/96BG [QJ-W] Snetterton 22/1/45; transferred 562BS/388BG Knettishall /45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA)... -
44-8549 Just Joyce
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 12/10/44; Hunter 5/11/44; Grenier 3/12/44; Assigned 562BS/388BG Knettishall 16/12/44; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 8/1/46. JUST JOYCE.
Associated Place
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Knettishall
Military site : airfield
Knettishall was built to Class A standard for an American Bomb Group that would be bringing up to forty heavy bombers with them in three or four Squadrons. The 388th Bomb Group, which stayed at Knettishall for their entire service in the ETO, flew B-17...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| 388th BG Combat Tour | Knettishall, Diss IP22 2TH, UK | 10 December 1944 – 10 April 1945 |
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 31 December 2017 02:09:24 | 466thHistorian | Changes to service number, events, person associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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http://www.388bg.info/servlet/Controller?pageType=detail&id=388-I-EAG01-... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:06:37 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.388bg.info/Personnel.html |
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