41-23678 Big Eagle / Bathtub Bessie
This aircraft was assigned to 93BG/330BS. The aircraft had been despatched from Alconbury to participate in the attack on aircraft plants at Lille, France on 9 October 1942. The aircraft was attacked on the way to the target by a German fighter near Dunkirk and crashed at Le Fayet, Near Templeuves, 10km SE of Lille, France. No MACR issued. This was the first B-24 listed as MIA from the 8th Air Force. 6KIA 3POW 1EVD.
P Capt Alexander Simpson (POW); CP 1Lt Nicholas H. Cox (POW)
N 2Lt Carl N. Garrett (KIA); B 1Lt William A. Marsh (KIA)
E/TTG TSgt Arthur B. Cox, Jr. (EVD); RO S/Sgt Arthur M. Torrey (KIA)
BTG Sgt James DeToris (KIA); WG S/Sgt Stephen J. Eppolito (KIA)
WG S/Sgt Clayton C. Kammerer (KIA); TG T/Sgt Michael Reardon (POW).
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14063517
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16034372 at enlistment, then O-442744
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32174174
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16038095
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-789241
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Missions
- Date: 9 October 1942
- Official Description:
Events
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Revisions
Daniel Carville's website page at http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=2490
Wallace Forman's "B-24 Nose Art Name Directory"
Lee Cunningham 25-Oct-2014. "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & john A. Hey MBE.