George W Wright

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Shot down 21 October 1942 in B-17 41-24344 while serving as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner. Killed in Action (KIA).

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Units served with

Ground personnel of the 97th Bomb Group reservice a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-9023) nicknamed "Yankee Doodle", following the raid on Rouen. Image stamped on reverse: 'Associated Press.' [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 18 Aug 1942.' [stamp], 'Air=SER (Boeing).' [written annotation] and '216112.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'U.S FLYING FORTRESSES RAID ROUEN IN DAYLIGHT. Associated Press Photo Shows: No sooner had one of the huge Fortresses landed after the raid than ground crew im
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 97th Bomb Group 414th Bomb Squadron

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Born

North Platte, Nebraska, USA

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Killed in Action (KIA)

Plouescat, France 21 October 1942 Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 15352 only indicates that he was MIA. However, testimony from 1Lt. Robert E. Jackson, in that MACR record, said that a German officer showed him the ID tags of 5 of the 8 KIAs in this crew and indicated that three others were unidentified but claimed that all the KIAs had been recovered and buried.

Buried

Nebraska, USA Originally buried by the Germans in the cemetery of Plouesat, France on 27-Oct-1942. After the war his remains were re-interred at the Brittany American Cemetery, St. James, France in Plot O, Row 5, Grave 103. However, the American Battle Monument Commission does not list him at still in this cemetery. Most likely his remains were repatriated to the United States to his home of record in Nebraska.

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Lee Cunningham 19-Nov-2014. Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 15352.

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Lee Cunningham 28-Oct-2014. Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 15352

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 15352 / MACR 15352, Losses of the 8th and 9th AF Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey, p. 38 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database