IX Air Force Troop Carrier Command
Command
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Extract from Presidential Unit Citation:
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Headquarters
Station | Location | Date |
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Based | Saltby | February 1944 – March 1945 |
Based | Poix-en-Picardie | February 1945 – October 1945 |
Military | Corporal | 314th Troop Carrier Group
Killed in a crash at Shelf Moor 24 July 1945 while flying C-47 Skytrain 42-108982 from Poix to Renfrew.
Military | Major | Glider pilot | 314th Troop Carrier Group
Military | Staff Sergeant | Radio operator | 314th Troop Carrier Group
Assigned to 50TCS, 314TCG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) re-supply Cotentin peninsula 7-Jun-44; Tracer started fire in fuselage, after dropping supplies, A/C took more tracer and then crashed in vicinity of Ste-Marie-Eglise. Killed in Action (KIA)...
Military | Corporal | Radio operator | 314th Troop Carrier Group
Assigned to 32TCS, 314TCG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) re-supply mission to Cotentin peninsula 7-Jun-44; A/C downed by flak, found crashed and burnt out 1 mile NE Sebeville, FR. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 5697
Awards: AM, PH.
Military | Captain | Pilot | 314th Troop Carrier Group
Assigned to 32TCS, 314TCG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Re-Supply mission to Cotentin peninsula in C-47 43-15146; A/C crashed 2 miles NNE of Picauville. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5712
Awards: AM, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 314th Troop Carrier Group
Killed in a crash at Shelf Moor 24 July 1945 while flying C-47 Skytrain 42-108982 from Poix to Renfrew.
Military | 314th Troop Carrier Group
Military | 314th Troop Carrier Group
Military | Staff Sergeant | Crew chief | 314th Troop Carrier Group
Assigned to 50TCS, 314TCG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) re-supply Cotentin peninsula 7-Jun-44; Tracer started fire in fuselage, after dropping supplies, A/C took more tracer and then crashed in vicinity of Ste-Marie-Eglise. Killed in Action (KIA)...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Crew chief | 314th Troop Carrier Group
Assigned to 32TCS, 314TCG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) re-supply mission to Cotentin peninsula 7-Jun-44; A/C downed by flak, found crashed and burnt out 1 mile NE Sebeville, FR. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 5697
Awards: AM, PH.
C-47 Skytrain
C-47 Skytrain
Assigned to 32TCS, 314TCG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) re-supply mission to Cotentin peninsula 7-Jun-44; A/C downed by flak, found crashed and burnt out 1 mile NE Sebeville, FR. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 5697
C-47 Skytrain
C-47 Skytrain
Crashed at Shelf Moor 24 July 1945 en route from Poix to Renfrew. The crew consisting of George Johnson, Earl Burns, Beverly Izlar, Theodore McCrocklin and Francis Maloney and two passengers, Grover Alexander and John Dunlop Main of the RAF were all...
C-47 Skytrain
C-47 Skytrain
C-53 Skytrooper
C-53 Skytrooper
C-47 Skytrain
C-47 Skytrain
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Date | Contributor | Update |
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27 September 2014 18:42:45 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980) |