Henry I Cushman
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Object Number - UPL 39558 - "A crew of the 379th Bomb Group poses beside a Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" "Peter Wabbit" at an 8th Air Force base in England, 24 July 1943."
Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 15 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Schweinfurt raid 17-Aug-43. Shot down by enemy aircraft, crashed Dorrebach, 6 miles W of Bingen, Germany Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 1350
Award: AM, PH.
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| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Rhode Island | 10 April 1919 | |
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Enlisted |
Boston, MA | 9 January 1942 | Boston, Massachusetts |
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Died |
Dorrebach, Germany | 17 August 1943 | Failed to Return (FTR) Schweinfurt raid 17-Aug-43. Shot down by enemy aircraft, crashed Dorrebach, 6 miles W of Bingen, Germany KIA MACR 1350 |
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Buried |
Dorrebach, Germany | 18 August 1943 | Interred Dorrebach cemetery |
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Based Killed in Action (KIA) |
Kimbolton | 17 August 1943 | Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Buried |
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery | Re-Interred Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Section 84 Site 349-351 | |
| Lived Fall River, MA |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1350 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database