Huey Raye Coward

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Object Number - UPL 70915 - 2nd Lt Huey R. Coward

Assigned to 38FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. 24 x missions. Failed to Return (FTR) escort to Hamm in P-51D 44-15022. Suspected victim of Anoxia, as dove into ground and exploded at Emlichheim. Killed in Action (KIA) 26-Nov-44 MACR 10540



Awards: AM (OLC), PH.

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 55th Fighter Group 338th Fighter Squadron 38th Fighter Squadron

Places

Lieutenant-Colonel Elwyn G. Righetti of the 338th Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter Group stands beside his P-51 Mustang, "Katydid". Print signed 'Best of everything your big loud Elwyn', 1944-1945.
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Bures / RAF Wormingford / RFC Wormingford / USAAF Station 159 / Wormingford Landing Ground

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Port Arthur, TX 1 January 1924

Enlisted

Fort Harrison State Park, 6000 N Post Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46216, USA 28 January 1943 Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana

Based

Wormingford 17 August 1944 - 26 November 1944 Assigned to 38FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF.

Other

Promoted

Wormingford, Colchester CO6 3SD, UK 15 November 1944 Promoted to 1st Lieutenant.

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

49824 Emlichheim, Germany 26 November 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) escort to Hamm in P-51D 44-15022. Suspected victim of Anoxia, as dove into ground and exploded at Emlichheim Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 10540
Ohio, USA

Buried

Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial Interred Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial Liege, Belgium

Other

Pilot training

Moorefield Rd, Mission, TX, USA Advanced flight training - Moore Field Mission, TX Class 44B.

Revisions

Date
ContributorAl_Skiff
Changes
Date
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Sources

Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia;
- MACR 10540

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

MACR 13240 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list

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