Calman Trevor Estrach

Military

Assigned 652BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Atlantic weather mission 17-Mar-45 in B-17 44-8601; Allah weather flight disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. Believed to have ditched west of St. Eval due to mechanical failure. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 13856.



Awards: AM, PH.

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Units served with

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'

25th Bomb Group

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

People

Robert Clinton Allison

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 652nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33080694
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner

James George Chressanthis

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 652nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32941976
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Aerial Gunner

Robert Henry Clark

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 652nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-779789
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Arthur George Eickhoff

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 652nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37721506
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

John Charles Gerlott

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 652nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33610203
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Aerial Gunner

Aircraft

44-8601

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 652nd Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Norfolk County, MA 8 May 1924 Son of Louis A and Lillian R Estrach.

Enlisted

Providence, RI 5 September 1942 Providence, Rhode Island

Died

17 March 1945

Buried/ Commemorated

Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery Coton, Cambs, UK

Based

Watton 17 March 1945 Assigned 652BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF.

Revisions

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Sources

Combat Chronology; Aerial Intelligence of the 8th Air Force, pg 177 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia