8th Air Force
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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Military
He had been a waist gunner in training to take over the Bombardier role and was in the nose. A German 88 anti aircraft shell had exploded in his lap, killing him instantly. The plane with its nose blown off and up into the windshield made it back to base! Pilot was DeLancey and the Navigator, who escaped the nose only slightly injured, got the plane back to its base. The rest of the crew survived.
(398th History, Vol II lists him as being in the 601st BS in Sept 1944 and receiving the OLC.)
Additional information on these web sites:
http://www.abbott-lavalle.info/narrative/george.html
http://www.398th.org/History/Articles/Remembrances/Ostrom_FortressHome.html
http://www.398th.org/History/Articles/News/Stateman_Capi_B-17toBase.html
http://www.398th.org/History/Articles/StarsAndStripes/19441015_DeLancey....
http://www.398th.org/History/Veterans/Voices/Transcriptions/Interview_St...
http://www.398th.org/Awards/DFC/DFC_Citations/DFCs_441202.html#anchor_DF...
http://www.398th.org/FlakNews/Articles/Stahlman_Story.html
http://www.398th.org/Images/Images_Aircraft_B-17/Aircraft/43-38172-3O-P_...
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 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...
Squadron
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 3/7/44; Kearney 12/7/44; Dow Fd 20/7/44; Assigned 601BS/398BG [3O-P] Nuthampstead 13/8/44; battle damaged Cologne 15/10/44 with Lawrence DeLancey; the aircraft was hit by flak after bombs away, then a shell exploded in the nose...
15 October 1944
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...
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania | 8 April 1925 |
Son of Edward Jr and Anna [McKown] Abbott. |
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Lived in | Pennsylvania, USA | 1940 |
Enlisted | 18 October 1943 | |
Died | Cologne, Germany | 15 October 1944 |
Buried | Pennsylvania, USA | 1945 |
Mount Lebanon Cemetery |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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28 December 2015 10:14:09 | Al_Skiff | Changes to service number, role, biography, awards, events, unit associations and mission associations |
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AAM DB Entry. |
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19 February 2015 19:26:41 | gpeters | Changes to biography |
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Added other relevant web sites. |
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16 February 2015 23:35:25 | gpeters | Changes to media associations |
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Associating picture existing on web site with George E. Abbott. |
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16 February 2015 23:08:10 | gpeters | Changes to biography and events |
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Added abbott-lavalle web site address. |
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16 February 2015 21:32:05 | gpeters | Changes to events |
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George was born and grew up in Mount Lebanon, Pa.. He died over Cologne, Germany. |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
13 October 2014 08:27:09 | Emily | Changes to aircraft associations |
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Data update from National Museum of Mighty Eighth Air Force, 15 September 2014. |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
10 October 2014 09:54:48 | Emily | Changes to unit associations and place associations |
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Data update from National Museum of Mighty Eighth Air Force, September 15 2014. |
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27 September 2014 18:10:50 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Combat Chronology Supplement; 398th History, Vol II / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |