Dale A Johns

Military

Crew Number 22

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Aircraft

Missions

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5725) nicknamed "This is IT!" of the 381st Bomb Group opens her bomb bay doors during a mission.

770

  • Date: 30 December 1944
B-17s of the 398th Bomb Group bombing the railyard at Bingen, 29 December 1944. Printed caption on reverse: '57548 AC- With bomb bay doors open, the first of a large formation of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses send their bombs plummeting earthwards on rail installations at Bingen, Germany, as heavy bombers of US Eighth Air Force press home their attack of December 29, 1944. US Air Force Photo.'

769

  • Date: 29 December 1944
Eleven men in Air Force uniform posed in two rows in front of a military airplane. Six men standing to the rear and five men sitting in front. Some of the men are wearing cold-weather flying gear.

754

  • Date: 18 December 1944

748

  • Date: 12 December 1944

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Chariton, IA 14 November 1924
Woodhull, IL 26 December 1942

Other

390th BG Combat Tour

Framlingham Airfield, UK 16 November 1944 - 9 April 1945

Died

Franklin, IN 2 March 1999

Buried

Mt. Auburn, Indiana 5 March 1999 Mount Auburn Cemetery Mount Auburn, Shelby County, Indiana, USA

Revisions

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http://5085.sydneyplus.com/final/portal.aspx?lang=en-US
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2238&h=3006925…
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37523380/dale-a-johns

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.390thspace.com/missions.php?name=Johns%2C+Dale+A