David W Lindsey

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Shot down 23 November 1942 in B-17 41-24478 while serving as Waist Gunner. Killed in Action (KIA).

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Units served with

Official insignia of the 306th Bomb Group, approved 6 January 1943, and updated 2 October 1951.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group

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Killed in Action (KIA)

Piriac-sur-Mer, France 23 November 1942 Unable to exit aircraft and died when it crashed.

Buried

La Baule-Escoublac, France Originally buried by the Germans in the English Cemetery at Escoublac, France. After the war his remains were moved to the Brittany American Cemetery at St. James, France. However, the American Battle Monuments Commission does not currently show him as being in that cemetery. It seems most probable that his remains were repatriated to the United States after the war.

Revisions

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Lee Cunningham 2-Dec-2014. Added KIE event per MACR 15392; edited Burial description per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hery MBE.

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Lee Cunningham 7-Nov-2014. Burial location added.

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 7-Nov-2014. MACR 15392; "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.

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Combat Chronology Supplement p.206, MACR 15392 , Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. One by Bishop and Hey, p. 48 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia