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Floyd Ray Aaron

Military

  • Richard S. Hosman Crew 398th BG - 601st BS Standing Left to Right: Richard S. Hosman (P), Roland D. Mundhenke (CP), Donald J. Coffee (N), Walter P. James (B) Kneeling Left to Right: Floyd R. Aaron (FE), Jerauld N. Clements (R/O), William H. Brown (WG), Frederick W. Hinze (WG), Theodore P. Blank (TG), Leon R. Kershaw (BTG) B-17G-60-BO #42-102854

    Richard S. Hosman Crew 398th BG - 601st BS Standing Left to Right: Richard S. Hosman (P), Roland D. Mundhenke (CP), Donald J. Coffee (N), Walter P. James (B) Kneeling Left to Right: Floyd R. Aaron (FE), Jerauld N. Clements (R/O), William H. Brown (WG), Frederick W. Hinze (WG), Theodore P. Blank (TG), Leon R. Kershaw (BTG) B-17G-60-BO #42-102854 "Arkansas Rambler" 222nd CCTS - Ardmore, OK

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Missing in Action (MIA) 13 April 1945 Neugmunster, Germany.

Bombs from one of our planes in the formation exploded in mid-air after release and damaged this aircraft.

Service

People

  • Emil Martineck

    Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
    Shot down 13 April 1945 in B-17 #4339184. Prisoner of War (POW). POW

Units served with

  • 398th Bomb Group

    398th Bomb Group

    Group
    The 398th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire on strategic bombing raids over Germany. The Group switched focus in the days before D-Day, when they targeted enemy positions on the Cherbourg peninsula. When the Allied...

  • 601st Bomb Squadron

    601st Bomb Squadron

    Squadron

Aircraft

  • 43-39184

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Lincoln 30/12/44; Dow Fd 10/1/45; Assigned 601BS/398BG [3O-U] Nuthampstead 27/2/45; (22m) Missing in Action Neumunster 13/4/45 with Emil Martinek, Navigator: Roger Campbell, Radio Operator: Alf Cason, Ball turret gunner: Francis Gardippe,...

Missions

Associated Place

  • Nuthampstead

    Military site : airfield
    Built during 1942-43, Nuthampstead was the nearest Eighth Air Force heavy bomber base to London. It had three concrete runways, 50 loop hardstandings and two dispersed T2 hangars. It was first occupied from September 1943 to April 1944 by the 55th...

Events

Event Location Date
Born Missouri, USA 21 April 1924
Lived in Mississippi County, AR, USA 1943
Enlisted Little Rock, AR, USA 18 May 1943
Killed in Action (KIA) 23843 Bad Oldesloe, Germany 13 April 1945

RDX bomb mishap. Helped Co-Pilot Ted Kline trying to hold the a/c so the wounded pilot could bail out, neither was able to get out of AC.
Buried Leachville, AR 72438, USA 1949

Leachville Cemetery
Leachville
Mississippi County
Arkansas, USA
Nationality
American
Nickname
Not yet known
Service numbers
38507332
Highest rank
Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
Role/job
Flight Engineer - Top Turret Gunner
Awards
Not yet known

Revisions

Date Contributor Update
12 September 2016 16:11:47 Lucy May Changes to biography
Sources

Brought in information from duplicate record. Source:
398th History / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
Date Contributor Update
17 June 2016 02:17:04 466thHistorian Changes to person associations
Sources

http://398th.org/PDF/History/MACRs/MACR_14176_398th_601st_19450413_Marti...
Date Contributor Update
17 June 2016 02:15:37 466thHistorian Changes to middlename, highest rank, role, events, place associations, mission associations and media associations
Sources

http://398th.org/PDF/History/MACRs/MACR_14176_398th_601st_19450413_Marti...
Date Contributor Update
21 November 2014 12:55:46 Deemax Changes to service number
Sources

Ancestry.com. U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Original data: United States. Army. Quartermaster General’s Office. Rosters of World War II Dead (all services). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army.
Date Contributor Update
27 September 2014 18:09:40 AAM AAM ingest
Sources

MACR 14176 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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