Cecil J Floyd

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Shot down 20 December 1942 in B-17F 42-5071 while serving as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner. Killed in Action (KIA).

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Units served with

306th Bomb Group

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

367th Bomb Squadron

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

Aircraft

42-5071

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron

Missions

VIII Bomber Command 26

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.'

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Other Killed in Action (KIA)	Nangis, France	20 December 1942	Killed when a 20mm shell fired by a German fighter exploded in the compartment and the aircraft crashed at Nangis, France.
Buried			The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) has no current record of his remains interred in any American Cemetery in Europe. Several other KIAs in this crew were buried in the Epinal American Cemetery and it is possible that he was buried there also at one time. There are three possibilities: His remains were never recovered; he was buried by the Germans at some location near the crash site; his remains were repatriated to the United States after the war.

Event

Location

Date

Description

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

Nangis, France

20 December 1942

Killed when a 20mm shell fired by a German fighter exploded in the compartment and the aircraft crashed at Nangis, France.

Buried

The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) has no current record of his remains interred in any American Cemetery in Europe. Several other KIAs in this crew were buried in the Epinal American Cemetery and it is possible that he was buried there also at one time. There are three possibilities: His remains were never recovered; he was buried by the Germans at some location near the crash site; his remains were repatriated to the United States after the war.

Revisions

Date6 Dec 2014 19:22:08

ContributorLee8thbuff

Changes

Sources

Lee Cunningham 6-Dec-2014. Added crew position to biography per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; added Burial event with comments; made connections to Place, Aircraft and Mission within existing website data.

Date27 Sep 2014 18:05:18

ContributorAAM