Everett John Graham

Military
media-16192.jpeg UPL 16192 Crew #673/491
William E. Hendrix Crew
466th BG - 784th and 786th Bomb Squadrons

Standing Left to Right: Henry W. Myers (CP), Otto P. Nuerauter (N), William E. Hendrix (P), John D. Howard (PN), Robert M. Spencely (RN), Frank B. Bailey (R/O), Everett J. Graham (G)

Kneeling Left to Right: William Ashcraft (G), Jeffery Molterno (TG), Thomas C. Sellman (B), J. Miller (FE) 466th Bomb Group collection

466th BG Historian

Object Number - UPL 16192 - Crew #673/491 William E. Hendrix Crew 466th BG - 784th and 786th Bomb Squadrons Standing Left to Right: Henry W. Myers (CP), Otto P. Nuerauter...

20 missions from 10 December 1944 to 17 April 1945.



AM w/ 2 Oak Leaf Cluster/ Good Conduct Medal/ EAME Medal w/ 4 Bronze Battle Stars/ 1 Overseas Service Bar

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Units served with

Three little girls hold up a balloon celebrating the 100th mission of the 466th Bomb Group in front of a B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-95592) nicknamed "Black Cat". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'On our 100 Mission party Day- 18 Aug 1944, Attlebridge, 466th- wouldn't it be something if we could identify these girls? How could I do it?'

466th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

William Earle Hendrix

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 786th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-678046
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-50288

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Dumbo
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron

42-95592

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Black Cat
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron

Places

Aerial photograph of Attlebridge airfield, looking north, the fuel store and a T2 hangar are in the upper centre, 31 January 1946. Photograph taken by No. 90 Squadron, sortie number RAF/3G/TUD/UK/51. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Attlebridge

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Newton Township, Albany, Illinois 15 September 1920

Died

Bartlett, TN, USA 21 July 2006 Everett J. Graham, 85, of Fenton, Ill., died Friday, July 21, 2006, at St. Francis Hospital, Bartlett, Tenn. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Fenton United Methodist Church where he was a member. Burial will be in Fenton Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Gibson Funeral Home, Erie. Memorials may to the church. Mr. Graham was born Sept. 15, 1920, in Albany, the son of John and Lucile Barnett Graham. He married Lois Meyer on July 19, 1944, in Morrison. She died on October 25, 1997. Everett served in the U.S. Army Air Corp during World War II as a waist gunner on a B-24 airplane. He flew in 22 missions over Europe. He had been a farmer and retired from Deere Harvester, East Moline in 1985 after 21 years of service. He lived on the family farm for over 60 years. Everett was a member of the Denton Schreiner American Legion, Erie, the Whiteside County Farm Bureau, and the Erie Senior Citizens. Everett was an avid St. Louis Cardinals and Green Bay Packers fan.

Buried

Fenton, IL, USA 25 July 2006 Fenton Cemetery Fenton Whiteside County Illinois, USA

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self & Page 280 in the book SECOND AIR DIVISION by Turner Publishing Co, 1998 edition

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