George Forrest King

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

KNO in B-26 after takeoff from Warton toward Toome, N. Ireland. No sign of a/c or crew found. King was with the 2nd Base Air Depot. His name is commemorated on the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery.

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People

Wilfred S Belk

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 27th Air Transport Group 87th Air Transport Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 20742211
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant

Ray C McDonnell

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 29th Air Depot Group
  • Service Numbers: O-470106
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Everett L Miller

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 27th Air Transport Group 310th Ferry Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-725765
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Places

Aerial photograph of Warton airfield looking north, the Ribble Estuary is on the left, 22 June 1949. Photograph taken by No. 58 Squadron, sortie number RAF/58/255. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Warton

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: BAD-2

Events

Event Location Date Description

Died

6 November 1943
Denver, CO, USA

Revisions

Date
ContributorLucy May
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Correspondence with Vivian Rogers-Price, Research Center Director at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force:
'I have been contacted by George F. King's nephew who has requested that we correct his uncle's name. We had him as a Jr. because the MACR 15489 did. This is not correct according to his nephew, the two entries in the World War II Registry, and news clippings his nephew sent. Also he was not a pilot but an aircraft mechanic at BAD 2. This is documented by a letter he wrote on 23 September 1943 to his brother that he would be sent to England and expected he would be "repairing airplanes on the other side as that has been my job so far although [I] have been [a] rated airplane observer for about two years."'

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ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th & 9th Afs Vol. I p. 361, MACR 15489