Glenn V Reiley

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-24512.jpeg UPL 24512 Glenn V Reiley

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Object Number - UPL 24512 - Glenn V Reiley

Shot down flak and crashed near Tubbergen, Holland on a mission to Genshagen near Berlin on 6 March 1944 in B-24H #41-29286. Killed in Action (KIA).

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'

458th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

41-29286

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Died

6 March 1944

Other

Entered service from

Pennsylvania

Buried

Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, The Netherlands, H-16-15 Plot H Row 16 Grave 15

Revisions

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ContributorLucy May
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Sources

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Date
ContributorLucy May
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Sources

Brought in information from duplicate record. Source:
MACR 3346 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

Date
ContributorAAM
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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3346, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces & Page 281 of the book LIBERATORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010

Glenn V Reiley: Gallery (3 items)

Lieutenant Reilley, Lieutenant Fields and Lieutenant Vincent of the 458th Bomb Group stand outside a "Glass Palace" Club. Image via Lieutenant Vincent. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Old Cotton-Lt Reilly, Lt Fields, Lt Vincent. Front of "Glass Palace" club for new flyers.'

Object number: FRE 1906 - Lieutenant Reilley, Lieutenant Fields and...

Object number: UPL 36526 - Lloyd Andrew Crew 458th BG - 753rd BS Back Row L...