Alfred Bernard Bergkamp

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Object Number - UPL 39154 - Alfred B. Bergkamp

Assigned to 329BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. Flew Ploesti raid on 1-Aug-43. ETD

Awards: AM, DFC, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 93rd Bomb Group.

93rd Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

41-23722

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: - Bomerang
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron

42-40765

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: - Valient Virgin
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Operation Tidal Wave

  • Date: 1 August 1943
  • Official Description: 177 B-24’s, of IX Bomber Command (including Heavy Bombers on loan from Eighth AF) are dispatched to bomb oil refineries at Ploesti and nearby Campina. The operation (TIDALWAVE) is costly, 54 planes and 532 airmen being lost, but damage to the targets...

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Garden Plain, KS 8 June 1920 Son of Frederick Bernard and Anna Katharine Bergkamp.

Enlisted

Fort Leavenworth, KS 11 January 1942 Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Other

Discharged USAAF

9 September 1945 Honourable discharge.

Died

Wichita, KS 12 February 1986

Buried

Resthaven Gardens of Memory Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS 15 February 1986 Resthaven Gardens of Memory Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS
Cheney, KS

Revisions

Date29 Nov 2019 18:05:14
ContributorAl_Skiff
ChangesChanges to service number, biography, awards, events and unit associations
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50607429/alfred-bernard-bergkamp

Date27 Sep 2019 13:29:29
Contributorgeneral ira snapsorter
ChangesChanges to unit associations, aircraft associations and mission associations
Sources

Ploesti Sortie Reports, 93rd Bomb Group

Date3 Apr 2016 20:53:02
ContributorBankerwalla
ChangesChanges to middlename and awards
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From his records and medals.

Date27 Sep 2014 18:03:19
ContributorAAM
ChangesAAM ingest
Sources

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

Alfred Bernard Bergkamp: Gallery (4 items)

A bomber crew of the 93rd Bomb Group with their B-24 Liberator nicknamed "Boomerang". A censor has obscured the insignia on the airmen's jackets. Passed as censored 5 Apr 1944. Printed caption on reverse: '"Boomerang" 53-Mission Liberator Goes Home. Associated Press Photo Shows:- Crew of the Liberator "Boomerang" before leaving for U.S. L-R squatting : 1st. Lt. William N. Ford of Jersey City, N.J. Navigator; Sgt. George C. Ewald of Norfolk, Va. crew chief; T/Sgt. Edwin D. Kleine of Long Island City, N.Y.,

Object number: FRE 3744 - A bomber crew of the 93rd Bomb Group with their B...

Object number: UPL 14931 - B-24D - Liberator, 41-23722, Bomerang, Ship's Crew...

Object number: UPL 14982 - B-24D Liberator, 42-40765, Valient Virgin, was in...

Object number: UPL 39154 - Alfred B. Bergkamp