Chester Peter Hewitt

Military
media-45402.jpeg UPL 45402 2LT Chester P. Hewitt
Navigator
Othello D. Smith Crew
388th BG - 561st/562nd BG 388th Bomb Group collection

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Object Number - UPL 45402 - 2LT Chester P. Hewitt Navigator Othello D. Smith Crew 388th BG - 561st/562nd BG

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Units served with

People

Aircraft

Missions

Ground crew attend to a crashed P-51 Mustang nicknamed "Baby Jo" of the 357th Fighter Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: ' Lt Noel Breen ran out of fuel 9 Feb '45.'

824

  • Date: 9 February 1945
A B-17 Flying Fortress (EP-E, serial number 42-31767) nicknamed "Our Gal Sal" of the 100th Bomb Group at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group. Written on slide casing: 'Our Gal Sal EP-E, 231767 at Mount Farm.'

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  • Date: 31 December 1944
A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5725) nicknamed "This is IT!" of the 381st Bomb Group opens her bomb bay doors during a mission.

770

  • Date: 30 December 1944

766

  • Date: 28 December 1944

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

New York, NY 4 November 1923
Lawrence, NY 30 June 1942 241 Rockaway Turnpike

Enlisted

New York, NY 18 March 1943

Other

388th BG Combat Tour

Knettishall Airfield, UK 16 November 1944 - 16 April 1945

Died

15 December 1980

Revisions

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https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2238/images/44028_04_0…

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Chester Peter Hewitt: Gallery (3 items)