42-30091 Blivit
Object Number - UPL 21816 - Pictured with Dean Radtke crew. Blivit was also flown by the crew led by pilot Lt. Mark Gummersall and co-pilot Lt. Reginald C. Holliday . Staff...
Delivered Denver 9/4/43; Gore 10/4/43; Denver 27/4/43; with Bill Stenson force landed Tinker, Ok 1/5/43; Gt Falls 25/5/43; Assigned 25FS/7FG with Bill Stenson force landed Tinker, OK 30/4/43; Kearney 29/5/43; Dow Fd 16/6/43; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-S] Thorpe Abbotts 17/6/43; damaged in base explosion at Gt Ashfield 3/9/43; crash landed Eye, Sfk. UK, 21/4/44, on training flight with Myron Richmond (all of 349BS), Co-pilot: John Kenney, Navigator: Gus Horstmann, Bombardier: Bob Keagy, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lester Cutler, Radio Operator: Walter George, Ball turret gunner: Chas Lewis, Waist gunner: John Johnson, Waist gunner: Cornelius Robinson, Tail gunner: Ray Lilly (10 Killed in Service); mission abandoned and ship suddenly dived to crash on butts of Eye Afd, Sfk., beside A140 Ipswich-Norwich Rd; Salvaged 5/5/44. BLIVIT.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 418th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 420th Air Service Group 493rd Bomb Group 330th Station Complement Squadron 418th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-751964
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot, thereafter Flight Control Officer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Other Damaged in base explosion |
Great Ashfield, Bury Saint Edmunds IP31 3HE, UK | 3 September 1943 | |
|
Crashed |
Eye, UK | 21 April 1944 |
Revisions
Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid clarity.
Family records.
Correction of typo.
Randy Holliday, son of Lt. Reg. C. Holliday, 100th BG, 418th BS, flew as co-pilot, crew of Lt. Mark Gummersall, on Blivit. Missions flown during period of Dec. 1943-Feb. 1944.
Added connections to airmen and units from biographical information.
Randy Holliday, son of Lt. Reg C. Holliday
Randy Holliday, son of Lt. Reg C. Holliday
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log
