George W Wright
Military ROLL OF HONOURShot 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
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- 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
Missions
- Date: 21 October 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
North Platte, Nebraska, USA | ||
Other 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. |
Revisions
ContributorLee8thbuff
Changes
Sources
Lee Cunningham 19-Nov-2014. Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 15352.
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
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