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S/Sgt Emmett G. Dupas, 384BG
S/Sgt Emmett George Dupas, 384BG.
Assigned to 547BS, 384BG, 8AF USAAF. John Whitesides crew. 29 x combat missions. ETD
Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 384th Bomb Group
Assigned to 547BS, 384BG, 8AF USAAF. 33 x combat missions. 10-Jan-45 aboard B-17 42-97263 'Lady Margaret', A/C crashed on take off. RTD
Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Group
The 384th Bomb Group flew B-17s from Grafton Underwood, Northamptonshire, between May 1943 and June 1945. They were engaged in daylight bombing missions over Germany as part of the Allies' efforts to destroy the effectiveness of the Luftwaffe by...
Group
The 490th Bomb Group, like the 486th and 487th Bomb Groups transitioned from flying B-24 Liberators to B-17 Flying Fortresses, which were used in combat missions from late August 1944. Based at Eye, Suffolk, the Group were focused in the early months...
Squadron
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 26/11/43; New Castle 10/12/43; Presque Is 15/12/43; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-C] Grafton Underwood 21/1/44; sal battle damaged 27/4/44. NEVADA AVENGER.
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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 12/2/44; Dalhart 2/3/44; Kearney 1/4/44; Grenier 6/4/44; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-D] Grafton Underwood 15/4/44; crashed on take off with John Whiteside 10/1/45, Salvaged.
Military site : airfield
Eye air base was not a Class A base but was constructed to a less demanding standard by the 827th and 859th Battalions of U.S. Army Engineers in 1943 and was finished in early 1944. Unusually, a group of its hardstandings were on the other side of the...
Military site : airfield
Grafton Underwood was built in 1941 by George Wimpey and Co. Ltd. It was the first airfield in England to receive an Eighth Air Force flying unit, when in May 1942 personnel of the 15th Bomb Squadron took up residence. As a satellite airfield for...
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| Born | New Orleans, LA | 10 October 1923 |
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Son of Cesaire Rudolph and Emma Melanie [Morgan] Dupas. |
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| Enlisted | 6 August 1943 | |
| Based | Grafton Underwood | December 1944 – April 1945 |
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Assigned to 547BS, 384BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Survived forced landing | 10 January 1945 | |
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10-Jan-45 aboard B-17 42-97263 'Lady Margaret', A/C crashed on take off. RTD |
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| Discharged USAAF | 15 September 1945 | |
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Honourable discharge. |
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| Died | 1 February 1990 | |
| Buried | Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA | 5 February 1990 |
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Greenwood Cemetery |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 25 July 2020 08:41:21 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, suffix, service number, highest rank, biography, events, unit associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/613639994 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 23 November 2016 10:08:13 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to unit associations |
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Merged with duplicate entries to include details from: |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:09:08 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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AAIR 45--0-10-519 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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