Adelbert DeHart Cross

Military
media-37951.jpeg UPL 37951 LTC Adelbert DeHart Cross
Command Pilot
389th BG
Participated in Operation Tidal Wave
Later served as base operations officer at Keesler AAF, Mississippi

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Object Number - UPL 37951 - LTC Adelbert DeHart Cross Command Pilot 389th BG Participated in Operation Tidal Wave Later served as base operations officer at Keesler AAF,...

Took part in Operation Tidal Wave, the raid on Ploesti on 1 August 1943, flying B-24 Liberator 42-40733.

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Sidney Westlund

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 389th Bomb Group 567th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: bombardier

George H Wilson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 389th Bomb Group 567th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
Colonel Jack W Wood of the 448th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Col Jack W Wood CO 20 CBW, became USAF Controller General Washington DC.'

Jack Weston Wood

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 20th Combat Bomb Wing 389th Bomb Group 565th Bomb Squadron Headquarters (14th Combat Bomb Wing)
  • Highest Rank: Major General
  • Role/Job: Chief of the British-American Air Component, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces Mission to Franc

William Henry Yaeger

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 389th Bomb Group 44th Bomb Group 566th Bomb Squadron 66th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-385447
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Pilot; Commanding Officer

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Event Location Date Description

Born

Ridgway, Pennsylvania 2 May 1917

Died

Lake Forest, California 21 April 1981
Longmeadow, MA

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Contributorgeneral ira snapsorter
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Ploesti Sortie Reports, 389th Bomb Group

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Contributor466thHistorian
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https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=5180&h=1600739…

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ContributorDieterle
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Philip Ardery, Bomber Pilot: A Memoir of World War II (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky: 1978) 99.

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ContributorDieterle
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Philip Ardery, Bomber Pilot: A Memoir of World War II (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky: 1978) passim.

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ContributorMichael Cross
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I am his son

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ContributorMichael Cross
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I am his son.

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ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ploesti by Dugan & Stewart

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