Arthur A Bloom
Military ROLL OF HONOURShot down 20 December 1942 in B-17F 42-5071 while serving as Waist Gunner. Killed in Action (KIA).
Connections
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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-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 20 December 1942
- Official Description:
Places
![A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group wave to Picture Post Girls in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24471) nicknamed "Four of a Kind" at Thurleigh in December 1942. Image stamped on reverse: '"Picture Post" [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 11 Dec 1942.' [stamp], '238038.' [Censor no.] Handwritten in censor's blue pencil on reverse: 'American Flying Fortress crew are introduced to the girls they will meet at Picture Post Xmas Party.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379028.jpg.webp?itok=6Gc6iR0j)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Nangis, France | 20 December 1942 | Killed when aircraft was attacked by German fighters and crashed near Nangis, France. |
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Buried |
Dinozé, France | Buried in the Epinal American Cemetery, Plot A, Row 27, Grave 27. |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 6-Dec-2014. Added crew position to biography per NARA Escape & Evasion Report #28; added KIA event per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; added SN, decoration and Burial event per American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) record; added connections to Place, Aircraft and Mission within existing website data.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop and Hey p. 55, First Over Germany by Strong pp. 56, 58