Albert Ray Moline

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-21842.jpeg UPL 21842 Albert P Moline - Des Moines, 305th BG, KIA Charles D Taylor collection

"Iowans of the Mighty Eighth", Chapter 19 "Killed in Action", by Charles D Taylor

Object Number - UPL 21842 - Albert P Moline - Des Moines, 305th BG, KIA

Shot down 4 February 1943 in B-17F 41-24593 'El Lobo' while serving as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner. Killed in Action (KIA). Target was Hamm, but aircraft sustained a mid-air collision with a German FW 190 and crashed in tidal land at Filsum/Ostfriesland near Leer, Germany. 6 crew members were killed and 4 became Prisoner of War (POW)s.

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Units served with

Unofficial emblem, 305th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: El Lobo
  • Unit: 305th Bomb Group 364th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa 29 December 1918

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

Filsum, Germany 4 February 1943 Killed when aircraft sustained a mid-air collision with a German FW190 and crashed near Filsum, Germany

Buried

Liège, Belgium Buried in the Ardennes American Cemetery, Plot D, Row 29, Grave 16.

Revisions

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Ancestry

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 28-Jan-2015. Added decorations and Burial event per American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) record; Added SN an KIA event per MACR 15395; made connections to Place, Aircraft and Mission within existing website data; Edited Biography, added crew position and crash location to Biography per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.

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ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, MACR 15395, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol I by Bishop and Hey, p .73, WWII National Monument web site

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