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On 27-January-43 in B-24D 41-23776 'Spirit of '76' while serving as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner the aircraft was attacked by FW-190s en-route to the target of Wilhelmshaven, Germany. The aircraft caught fire, exploded and crashed on Terschelling Island, Holland. Killed in Action (KIA)
Group
The 44th Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 15-January-1942 at McDill Field, Florida and equipped with B-24Cs. The Group moved to Barksdale Field, Louisiana and acted as a training unit for the 90th 93rd and 98th Bomb Groups and flew anti...
Squadron
B-24 Liberator
On 27-Jan-43 B-24D 41-23776 "Spirit of 76" was on a mission to bomb the naval installation at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. The pilot was unable to located the target due to weather and navigation problems. The aircraft was attacked by fighters and shot down...
2 February 1943
All six 8th Air Force Bomb Groups operting from Great Britain are ordered on a mission to bomb the marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany. 61 B-17s and 22 B-24s are despatched but the formation runs into severe weather over the North Sea and the mission in...
Military site : airfield
Shipdham was built in 1941-1942, the first US heavy bomber airfield in the English county of Norfolk. It was a standard design, with T2-type hangars and a domestic site dispersed to the south east. Improvements were carried out to increase the number...
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Handen, Connecticut, USA | |
| Killed in Action (KIA) | Terschelling, Netherlands | 27 January 1943 |
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Killed when aircraft was attacked by FW-190s and crashed on Terschelling Island, Holland. |
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| Buried | 1945 | |
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Buried in the Netherlands American Cemetery, Plot B, Row 1, Grave 8. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 16 February 2015 18:46:15 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to service number, role, biography, awards, events, place associations and mission associations |
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Lee Cunningham 16-Feb-2015. Added SN & KIA event per MACR 15459; Added decorations and Burial event per AMerican Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) record. Made connections to Place and Mission within existing website data; Added crew position and loss details to Biography based on "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:10:29 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 15459 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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