Gilbert S Shawn

Military
media-13393.jpeg UPL 13393 B-24H-1-CF, serial number 41-29118

MACR 3829

Object Number - UPL 13393 - B-24H-1-CF, serial number 41-29118

Shot down on a mission in Zwickan. Parachuted into Belgium where with friends and the AUnderground worked his way to Sedan, France (before the invaasion , Time behind enemy lines was six months.

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51681) of the 453rd Bomb Group flies in formation with a fellow Liberator of the 453rd and and a pathfinder Liberator of the 445th Bomb Group. Image via Alan Rowsell.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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Born

New York City, New York 25 July 1923

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum Membership List, July 2000 & Page 404 in the book 2ND AIR DIVISIONby Turner Publishing Company, 1998 edition (D790.A2S45)

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