Alva J Tompkins Jr
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Tompkins Archive
Object Number - UPL 35501 - Alvar J Tompkins
35 combat missions/ on 10/25/44 while flying from Bungay to an RAF base inside England had a crash landing and with the plane loaded with ammo, it blew up. Some of the 15 crew escaped.
Killed when his aircraft, B-24 41-29411, crashed and burned 25 Oct 44 at Ainsdale, near Southport, Lancashire, on a flight to Woodvale, Lancashire, while being used as a "passenger and baggage haul" plane to carry crews to a rest home
DFC/ PH/ AM with three oakleaf clusters.
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Ridge Runner
- Unit: 446th Bomb Group 704th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
- Known as: Segar’s farm, Ainsdale, Southport
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Yonkers, New York | 21 June 1923 | |
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Died |
Ainsdale | 25 October 1944 | |
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Buried |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / brother
