Ira Lawrence Arnold

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

B-17G #42-31968 'Miss Irish' returned from a mission to Marquise/Mimoyecques, Fance and made an emergency landing at Raydon after taking a direct hit from an 88mm in the radio room on 19 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). Shot down by Flak on the Merseburg mission 29 July 1944 in AC #42-31537 "Buffalo Gal". Crashed Punschrau, Germany. On the William T. Fitzroy page at https://100thbg.com/index.php?option=com_bombgrp&view=personnel&id=1648… , Fitzroy states he saw 12 Americans hanged and shot by the Germans on 29 July 1944 after bailing out. Among them were Ira Arnold, Robert Dykeman and Floyd Douglas from his crew. Page 6 of German report KU-2601 at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/147892518 mentions that Ira Arnold was found cremated in the debris of the crashed plane and first buried on 30 July 1944 as “unknown” at the cemetery of Hassenhausen, 5km West of Bad Kösen... Killed in Action (KIA)

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Myron "Ty" Ettus

Myron Jerome Ettus

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12127423
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

William Thomas Fitzroy

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13038519 at enlistment, then O-755538
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
A battle damaged waist gun position on a B-17 Flying Fortress.

John Phillip Gibbons

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-803182
  • Highest Rank: Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot / Squadron Commander

Floyd Franklin Hartman

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 38128736 at enlistment, then O-808050
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
A bomber crew of the 96th Bomb Group with the chin turret of their B-17G Flying Fortress. In the back row from left to right: Technical Sergeant Geo Goetz, Top-Turret gunner; Technical Sergeant Bob Woherty, Radio Operator; Staff Sergeant Luigi Iacovello, left waist gunner; Staff Sergeant Roy Johnson, Ball Turret operator; Staff Sergeant Everett Johnson, right waist gunner; Staff Sergeant Charles A Haywood, Tail Gunner. In the front row left to right: First Lieutenant Paul Herring, Pilot; Flight Officer Ch

Everett Max Johnson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-691761
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

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Born

7 March 1922

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Killed

29 July 1944 near Punschrau/Bad Kösen, Germany

Buried

30 July 1944 Cemetery of Hassenhausen, Germany

Born

Muleshoe, Bailey County, Texas

Buried

after the war, his remains were brought back to the US. Ira Arnold rests at the Fort Bliss National Cemetery, El Paso, Texas

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Added " / " in the "Role/job" field as a separator to aid readability.

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MACR 15220
MACR 7809
German report KU-2601 at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/147892518 (NARA)

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Corrected typos and added details in Biography

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Updated "Summary biography" for readability.

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Updated BIO data per Find-a-grave MEMORIAL ID 298265.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7809 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Thompson, MACR 7809, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces