David W Wheeler

Military
media-30934.jpeg UPL 30934 Major David Wheeler alongside the noseart of B-17 42-31721 Black Magic 351BG, 8AF.

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Object Number - UPL 30934 - Major David Wheeler alongside the noseart of B-17 42-31721 Black Magic 351BG, 8AF.

Completed 25 missions from Apr 1943 to Nov 1944. He was the 70th Officer to complete tour. He survived three plane crashes, which one he was badly injured while stationed with the 351st BG.



DFC Oak Leaf Cluster, AM w/3 Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star w/1 Oak Leaf Cluster, PH

Connections

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Units served with

Official insignia of the 306th Bomb Group, approved 6 January 1943, and updated 2 October 1951.

306th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
The insignia of the 351st Bomb Group.

351st Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-2978

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Sis
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 306th Bomb Group 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron 535th Bomb Squadron

42-29993

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Carroll Jun
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group
The insignia of the 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group.

42-3041

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron 306th Bomb Group
A B-17F Flying Fortress (RD-U, serial number 42-30606) of the 423rd Bomb Squadron 306th Bomb Group, parked outside a bombed hangar at Wathisham. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Boeing B-17F 306th. Wathisham A/F, Suffolk. 8/43. Hangar bombed by Jerries.'

42-30606

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron

42-30794

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

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Lewiston, Massachusetts 17 June 1918

Died

3 January 2011

Buried

Yuba City, California

Revisions

Date
ContributorDouglas P
Changes
Sources

https://www.306bg.us/Search/search%20serial%20number%20w%20validation.p…

Date
ContributorDouglas P
Changes
Sources

351st.org
306thbg.us

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

306th BG Association Directory, 1 September 1999 Edition, Obituary, First Over Germany pg. 142-3, 151, & 177-8, Combat Crews pg. 120,

href="www.351st.org/ken.harbour/">www.351st.org/ken.harbour/> / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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