Donald Leroy Snyder

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-35573.jpeg UPL 35573

Henry Chappelle

Object Number - UPL 35573

Assigned to 364BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. 30 x combat missions. 10-Jan-45; Killed in Action (KIA)



Awards: DFC, AM (4OLC), PH.

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Units served with

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

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 305th Bomb Group
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 305th Bomb Group
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 703rd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

Two 306th Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortresses collided in mid-air in heavy fog over Thurleigh airbase after returning from a mission; both were destroyed with all hands lost. Handwritten caption on reverse: '55819.' Printed caption on reverse: '55819 AC - Returning from a daylight bombing assault on important synthetic oil plants and key communications centers just behind von Rundstedt's lines, two B-17 Flying Fortresses collide in mid-air and disintegrate. None of the crews of either plane escaped. The fat
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 305th Bomb Group 364th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Milton, PA 19 November 1923 Son of Martha Welliver- Snyder and Jacob D Snyder

Enlisted

Harrisburg, PA 18 February 1943

Died

10 January 1945

Based

Chelveston 10 January 1945 Assigned to 364BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF.

Buried

Re-Interred Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial Plot C Row 14 Grave 59

Buried

Harmony Cemetery, Milton, PA Memorialised Harmony Cemetery Milton, Northumberland County, PA
Dauphin County, PA

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305 war dairy

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305 war dairy

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flight logs of the 305th

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Combat Chronology / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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