Curtis Audrey Reynolds
Military ROLL OF HONOURKIA, in crash on 8 June 1944 at Plantation Farm (3/4 mile north from Shippea Hill Station / Burntfen), Cambridgeshire - England (52°26'41"N / 0°24'45"E).
Crew had already taken-off for mission cancelled and was granted permission to remain in
flight for navigation training.
Aircraft touched the ground, 1 mile from the place of crash, where the #4 propellor and parts of the cowlings from #2, 3 and 4 engines were later found. Aircraft left the ground, went into a flat spin to the right and crashed.
42-97132 exploded on contact with the ground, the second time.
RAF Bomb Disposal Flight No 6213 Cambridge disarmed bombs.
AAF accident report: 44-6-8-529.
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16023292
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner, Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-815825
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-812941
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17003857
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-754744
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Silver Lady
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Memorial
- Known as: Knettishall
- Site type: Other
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Memorial
- Known as: St Mary's Church, Coney Weston
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Thornton AK | 2 September 1923 | |
Died |
8 June 1944 | KIA, in crash at Plantation Farm, Burnt Fen, Shippea Hill Station, Cambridgeshire. | |
Buried |
Nashville National Cemetery | 29 April 1949 | Initially buried at Cambridge, reinterred with 8 other members of the crew in plot MM 106 |
Revisions
ancestry.com
findagrave memorial #3199516
accident report correspondence dated 24 Oct 1944
Losses of the 8th and 9th Air Forces, volume 3
Stan D Bishop & John A Hey, MBE
Bishop’s Books
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 6NY
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Combat Sup / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia