Milton Casebere
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 388th Bomb Group
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Calvin Samson
Military
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CPT Calvin Sampson Pilot - Command Pilot 388th BG - 561st BS Sampson flew two tours and a total of 40 combat missions, including the last 13 as a command pilot
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Calvin Sampson Crew 388th BG - 561st BS Standing Left to Right: Omer D. Wildman (WG), Clavin Samson (P), Charles C. Claggett (TG), Pal L. Sundberg (BTG). Unidentified, Unidentified, Milton C. Casebere (N) One of the two unidentified is Oscar D. Hanan (WG)
Retired from the USAF with the rank of Lt. Colonel
Service
People
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Charles Claggett
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
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Edward DeGrandpre
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Worked as an Air Traffic Controller after the war -
Clifford Fleming
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 388th Bomb Group
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James Godwin
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 388th Bomb Group
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Richard Goodlette
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
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Oscar Hanan
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
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James Maher
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 388th Bomb Group
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Paul Sundberg
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
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Omer Wildman
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Units served with
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388th Bomb Group
Group
The 388th Bomb Group flew strategic bombing mission from Knettishall, Suffolk from June 1943 to the end of the war. During this time, though, detachments were sent to Fersfield, Norfolk to conduct Aphrodite missions. In these Aphrodite missions veteran... -
561st Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-107061 Peg O' My Heart
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 9/2/44; Gr Island 18/2/44; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 13/3/44; Missing in Action Laon 8/5/44 with Searl Pickett, Co-pilot: Bob Roan, Navigator: Bob Shields, Bombardier: Mervin Jacobs, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Abar (5... -
42-30340 Dry Run, Screamin' Red Ass
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 18/5/43; Grand Isle 4/6/43; Dow Field 25/6/43; Assigned 563BS/388BG Knettishall 26/6/43; Missing in Action Berlin 8/3/44 with Alan Amman, Co-pilot: Don Wollard, Navigator: Bill Pierson, Navigator: Ralph Diederich, Flight engineer/top... -
42-30778 Old 66/Lady Margaret
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 28/7/43; Gore 6/8/43; Pendleton 12/8/43; Reno 14/8/43; Pierre 16/8/43; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 3/9/43; crashed on take off for France 13/8/44 with Leon Sutton, Co-pilot: Harlan Thompson, Navigator: George Healy, Bombardier:... -
42-31707 Jake's Jerks
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 8/12/43; Kearney 24/12/43; Long Beach 2/1/44; Presque Is 5/1/44; Prestwick 15/1/44; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 17/1/44; Missing in Action Kiel 22/5/44 with Jack Glantz, Co-pilot: Bill Edwards, Navigator: Morton Berger, Bombardier... -
42-31760 'Ikky Poo'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 11/12/43; Gt Falls 17/12/43; Danver 20/12/43; Kearney 31/12/43; Presque Is 24/1/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-D] Horham 4/2/44; 17m, Missing in Action night practice mission 6/11/44 with George Birch McVay; Co-pilot: Charles O’Brien,... -
42-32030 Devil's Luck
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 17/1/44; Gr Island 4/2/44; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 11/2/44; Missing in Action Munich 31/7/44 with Ora Castrup, Co-pilot: Joe DeRidder, Navigator: Harvey Dellward, Bombardier: Chester Pluta, Flight engineer/top turret gunner:... -
42-97289
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 15/2/44; Rapid City 5/3/44; Dow Fd 14/4/44; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 22/4/44; no ops, transferred 561BS/388BG [ -Q] Knettishall 28/4/44; (18m) on return from Merseburg 29/7/44 with Gene Peterson, Co-pilot: Victor Locke, Navigator:... -
42-97666
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 21/1/44; 1SAG Langley 3/3/44; Grenier 6/4/44; Assigned as SH ship 96BG Snetterton 7/4/44; transferred 728BS/452BG Deopham Green 8/4/44; Missing in Action Hamburg 31/12/44 with John Kostuch (Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bob McCutcheon,... -
42-97760
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 16/2/44; 1SAG Langley 12/3/44; Dow Fd 29/5/44; Assigned 562BS/388BG Knettishall 31/5/44; Salvaged 9AF Germany 11/1/46. -
44-6894
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Lincoln 12/12/44; Grenier 20/12/44; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 24/12/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 3/7/45; Sth Plains 4/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 23/11/45.
Missions
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8th Air Force 226 BIG WEEK - DAY 1
20 February 1944
This mission is the opening salvo of the Allied Combined Bomber Offensive known officially as "Operation Argument" but remembered in 8th Air Force History as "BIG WEEK". The immediate strategic objective of this six-day operation is the degradation of... -
8th Air Force 244
2 March 1944
The primary targets for this mission are: the railroad marshalling yards at Frankfurt, Germany; and the German air depot ar Chartres, France. The mission is composed of two entierly separate forces. 327 B-17s from 1st Air Division joined by 154 B-24s... -
8th Air Force 246
3 March 1944
A combined force of 748 heavy bombers are despatched to bomb the primary targets of Berlin, Erkner and Oranienburg, Germany, but weather and dense contrails forced most of the formations to turn back or seek Targets of Opportunity (TOs). 1st Combat... -
8th Air Force 247
4 March 1944
The industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany are the primary targets for this mission. All three Air Divisions despatch formations. However, the despatch from 2nd Air Division aborted the mission because of severe weather in the assembly area... -
8th Air Force 250
6 March 1944
The industrial areas of Berlin and Genshagen, Germany are the primary targets for this mission. A combined force of 730 heavy bombers are despatched from 1st, 2nd and 3rd Air Divisions. The despatch from 3rd Air Division bombs Targets of Opportunity in... -
8th Air Force 273
22 March 1944
The German aviation industries at Oraneinburg and Basdorf were the intended primary target for this mission but dense cloud cover prevented the attack on these targets. The secondary target of Berlin, Germany and surrounding Targets of Opportunity (TOs... -
8th Air Force 280
26 March 1944
9 V-Weapon sites in the Pas-de-Calaise, France area and 7 V-Weapon sites in the Cherbourg, France area are the targets of this mission. A combined force of 573 heavy bombers from all three Air Divisions are despatched. Mission Summary follows: ... -
8th Air Force 287
1 April 1944
The industrial areas of Ludwigshafen was the traget for this mission, but the mission was frustrated by heavy cloud cover and navigational errors that resulted in the mission going haywire. 3rd Air Division and 2nd Air Division despatch heavy bombers.... -
8th Air Force 291
8 April 1944
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8th Air Force 293
9 April 1944
Associated Place
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Knettishall
Military site : airfield
Knettishall was built to Class A standard for an American Bomb Group that would be bringing up to forty heavy bombers with them in three or four Squadrons. The 388th Bomb Group, which stayed at Knettishall for their entire service in the ETO, flew B-17...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Billings, Montana | 22 October 1919 |
| Lived in | Helena, Montana | 1 July 1941 |
| Enlisted | Fort Missoula, Montana | 21 July 1941 |
| 1st 388th BG Combat Tour | Knettishall Airfield, UK | 20 February 1944 – 14 August 1944 |
| 2nd 388th BG Combat Tour | Knettishall Airfield, UK | 30 February 1944 – 21 April 1945 |
| Died | Fairfield, Arizona | 8 December 2014 |
| Buried | Sacramento, California | 15 December 2014 |
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Sacramento Valley National Cemetery |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 25 February 2019 01:20:16 | 466thHistorian | Changes to surname, biography and events |
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https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7545&h=36212453... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 25 February 2019 01:12:51 | 466thHistorian | Changes to events |
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https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2238&h=24832496... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 24 February 2019 23:22:58 | 466thHistorian | Changes to firstname, service number, person associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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http://www.388bg.info/servlet/Controller?pageType=detail&id=388-I-GOD02-... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:02:34 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.388bg.info/Personnel.html |
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