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Alvin D Cantrell

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media-30679.png UPL 30679 S/Sgt Alvin D. Cantrell - 26 November 1943 (from an official USAAF photo)

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Object Number - UPL 30679 - S/Sgt Alvin D. Cantrell - 26 November 1943 (from an official USAAF photo)

Killed in Action (KIA) in plane #42-31441. Mid-air collision after T/O.

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Units served with

Official emblem of the 303rd Bomb Group approved 7 November 1942.

303rd Bomb Group

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

360th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

People

Arthur O Berntzen

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 20273063
Highest Rank: Sergeant
Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

Lee Esrle Brown

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 14126466
Highest Rank: Sergeant
Role/Job: waist gunner

Benajah Gray Burkitt

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 14043208 at enlistment, then O-802529
Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
Role/Job: Pilot

Herbert Austin Foote

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 11008973 at enlistment, then O-809569
Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
Role/Job: Navigator

Philip Howard Gatewood

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 37230311
Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
Role/Job: Flight Engineer; Top Turret Gunner

Aircraft

42-31441

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron

Missions

8th Air Force 176

Date: 5 January 1944

Places

Aerial photograph of the east end of Molesworth airfield looking north, the control tower and two T2 hangars are right of the vertical runway, 5 October 1945. Photograph taken by No. 541 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/889. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Molesworth

Site type: Airfield

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Arkansas, United States	20 January 1921
Enlisted	Little Rock, Arkansas, États-Unis	6 August 1942
Died	Catworth, Huntingdonshire, United Kingdom	5 January 1944	in the loss of B-17 Serial 42-31441 after a mid-air collision with 42-37887 of the 379th BG
	Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States
Buried	Little Rock National Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Revisions

Date23 Nov 2017 13:28:48

ContributorED-BB

Changes

Sources

NARA WWII Enlistment Records
VA Grave locator

Date27 Sep 2014 18:03:35

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

8th AF Losses / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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