Chester H Oliver Jr
MilitaryEd Reniere notes (December 2017) : The 303rd Bomb Group website ( www.303rdbg.com ) lists Chester H. Oliver in its Roster and Support Personnel list, without any details. The link to "Galloping Gus" (B-17 41-9215) on this website was wrong and the connection deleted. 41-9215 was assigned to the 11th BG/98th BS in Hawaii on 5 June 1942 and flew only in the Pacific. Chester's daughter corrected me in 2003 and wrote that the Fortress her Father flew on was not "Galloping Gus" but "Galloping Goose". Serial Number not found, nor any other details...
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
![Ground personnel of the 97th Bomb Group reservice a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-9023) nicknamed "Yankee Doodle", following the raid on Rouen. Image stamped on reverse: 'Associated Press.' [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 18 Aug 1942.' [stamp], 'Air=SER (Boeing).' [written annotation] and '216112.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'U.S FLYING FORTRESSES RAID ROUEN IN DAYLIGHT. Associated Press Photo Shows: No sooner had one of the huge Fortresses landed after the raid than ground crew im](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379318.jpg.webp?itok=n7iztoxa)
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Massachusetts, United States | 31 May 1917 | the son of Chester H. Oliver Sr and Gertrude G. Oliver |
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Enlisted |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States | 28 June 1941 | as a Private in the Air Corps |
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Died |
Apache Junction, Pinal County, Arizona, United States | 27 September 2009 | |
| Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States |
Revisions
e-mails with daughter Shirley Rutherford (2003)
NARA WWII Enlistment Records
US Censuses 1930 and 1940
SSDI (Social Security Death Index)
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://303rdbg.com/rost-nopq.html#N