Doyle Herman Blankenship

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Eleven men in Air Force uniform posed in front of a military airplane. Six men standing to the rear, five men kneeling in front. A bundle of cold-weather flying gear is laying in front of kneeling men UPL 67483 UPL 67483 384th Bomb Group Lead Crews / 18 March 1944/Oberpfaffenhofen (Aircraft Plant).
Back L-R: SSgt. Ralph Voorhees (FG), SSgt. Doye Blankenship (FG), unidentified 1, SSgt. Fillman Thurman (BT), unidentified 2.
Middle L-R: Lt. Col William Buck (CA/CP), Capt. Eugene Wilson (N), 1st Lt. William Kinney (B).
Front L-R: TSgt. Alvin Renfro (TT), TSgt. George Carroll (RO), Capt. Lloyd Armstrong (P).
To Be Identified: 2nd Lt. Joseph Lewis (N), 2nd Lt. Everett Bailey (OBS/TG.

Robert Bletscher Collection, 2011.  https://photos.384thbombgroup.com/picture.php?/36371/category/LeadCrews

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Object Number - UPL 67483 - 384th Bomb Group Lead Crews / 18 March 1944/Oberpfaffenhofen (Aircraft Plant). Back L-R: SSgt. Ralph Voorhees (FG), SSgt. Doye Blankenship (FG),...

Shot down by flak burst and crashed N of St Pol, FR on a mission to Wizernes, FR on 19 Mar 1944 in B-17G 42-31926 'Lovell's Hovel'. Killed in Action (KIA).

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Units served with

The insignia of the 384th Bomb Group.

384th Bomb Group

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

People

James MacNaughton Lovell

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-802209
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-31484

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Mairsy Doats
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron 546th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron
42-31926 lovells hovel

42-31926

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Lovell's Hovel
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortresses nicknamed "London Avenger", nicknamed "Bermondsley Battler", nicknamed "Rotherhithe's Revenge" and nicknamed "Bermondsley" of the 379th Bomb Group, 15 February 1944. Passed for publication 16 Feb 1944. Censor no: 305411. Handwritten caption on reverse: '16/2/44.' Printed caption on reverse: ' CHRISTENS U.S. FORTRESS BOMBER. Feb. 16th, 1944. As an appreciation of £800,000 raised during Bermondsey's Wings for Victory Week., the people of Bermondsey christened a U.S. Fortress bomber "

42-37792

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Eleanor Maureen : Bermondsey
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron 34th Bomb Group 487th Bomb Group 836th Bomb Squadron

42-97124

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: The Joker
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

Roanoke, VA 18 September 1942

Born

Redwood, Virginia, USA

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

Wavrans-sur-Ternoise, France 19 March 1944 Aircraft hit by flak immediately after bombs away; later observed spiraling down with flames pouring from all parts of aircraft; four chutes emerged, with one on fire; crashed near Wavrans-sur-Ternoise, a very small village, near a larger town called St Pol-sur-Ternoise, France. MACR 3242

Buried

Glade Hill, VA Crafts Methodist Church Cemetery Glade Hill, Virginia, USA

Revisions

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Sources

https://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/person.php?PersonKey=5120
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=8939&h=3342122…

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Sources

Merged with duplicate record to include information from :
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=b...

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3242 / MACR 3242, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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