Donald Nile Holbrook

Military
media-37479.jpeg UPL 37479 S/Sgt Donald N Holbrook receiving Distinguished Flying Cross medal, 1 of 2 awarded.

Donald N Holbrook

Object Number - UPL 37479 - S/Sgt Donald N Holbrook receiving Distinguished Flying Cross medal, 1 of 2 awarded.

Assigned to 849BS 490BG, 8AF USAAF. Member of Borman crew. ETD





Awards: DFC (OLC), AM (3OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 490th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 490th Bomb Group 849th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11069513 / O-693606
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Classy Chassis II
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 490th Bomb Group Base Air Depot 2 832nd Bomb Squadron

Places

Eye, home of the 490th Bomb Group, photographed from the air. Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'Eye from air.'
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Brome

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Mapleton, MN 10 April 1917 Son of Nile Harold and Layette M [Johnson] Holbrook.

Enlisted

Fort Snelling, MN 16 February 1943 Fort Snelling, Minnesota

Other

Discharged USAAF

10 October 1945

Died

Mankato, MN 9 November 1983

Buried

Minneopa Cemetery, Mankato, MN 13 November 1983 Minneopa Cemetery Mankato, Blue Earth County, MN

Based

Eye Assigned to 849BS 490BG, 8AF USAAF.

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Phil Heinzman, nephew

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Donald N Holbrook

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490th Bomb Group Unit Personnel / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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