Doyle C McCutchen
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
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Photo courtesy of the USAAF Class Book Project ABMC American Cemeteries website
Object Number - UPL 35051 - S/Sgt Doyle McCutcheon Photo courtesy of the USAAF Class Book Project ABMC American Cemeteries website
Ball Turret Gunner, Sunde crew. 381st BG, 535th BS, 8th AF. Shot down on 1 December 1943 on B-17 #42-31097 'Mission Belle'. Mission #46 to the chemical factory at Leverkusen, Germany. KIA (Killed in Action) - MACR 1661.
Arkansas
One crew report has Sgt McCutcheon dying by machine gun fire in the radio room. Another crew account by RO Sgt Carano states McCutcheon was attempting to escape the sinking aircraft through a waist gun window. Sgt Carano assisted him into the water. The aircraft went down nose first and as the tail rose in the air, the aircraft broke in two at the ball turret. The tail section fell on Sgt McCutcheon and he was not seen again.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32410832
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator / Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17065322 and O-739541
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron 535th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35722592
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38168075
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner; Flight Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32335119
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Mission Belle
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 1 December 1943
- Date: 26 November 1943
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, The Netherlands
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Enlisted |
Los Angeles, California, United States | 4 November 1942 | |
|
Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Germany | 1 December 1943 | Killed by Machine Gun fire in radio room. According to Dutch sources, his body was found in the aircraft when recovered in 1955... |
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Born |
Arkansas, United States | ||
| Rupert, Idaho, United States | |||
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Buried |
Plot J Row 10 Grave 16 Body recovered from the river 30-5-1944. |
Revisions
MACR 1661 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
