Claude A Culpepper

Military

Object Number - UPL 25580 - Claude A. Culpepper, 93rd Bomb Group

Flew on famous Ploesti raid of 1 Aug '43.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 93rd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: - The Duchess - Evelyn
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron

Missions

  • Date: 1 August 1943
  • Official Description: 177 B-24’s, of IX Bomber Command (including Heavy Bombers on loan from Eighth AF) are dispatched to bomb oil refineries at Ploesti and nearby Campina. The operation (TIDALWAVE) is costly, 54 planes and 532 airmen being lost, but damage to the targets...

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Hattiesburg, Miss

Revisions

Date20 Sep 2019 10:23:29
ChangesChanges to role, unit associations, aircraft associations and mission associations
Date27 Sep 2014 18:06:21
ContributorAAM
ChangesAAM ingest
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ploesti by Dugan & Stewart

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