Doyle Hicks
Military
USAAF Photo
Object Number - UPL 56381 - Capt Doyle Hicks, 389BG.
Assigned to 565BS, 389BG, 8AF USAAF. Took part in Operation Tidal Wave, the raid on Ploesti on 1-Aug-43, flying B-24 Liberator 42-40716. ETD
Awards: DFC, BSM, AM, WWII Victory, EAME (2 x Battle Stars).
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Yours Truly
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 565th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Medicine Mound, Texas | 7 September 1916 | Son of Ira Lee and Lillie Bell [Holmes] Hicks. |
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Enlisted |
8 February 1941 | ||
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Other Discharged USAAF |
13 April 1946 | Honourable discharge. | |
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Died |
21 October 2004 | Doyle Hicks, age 88, passed away on October 21, 2004. Doyle is survived by a son and his wife, a daughter, two brothers and a sister. Doyle is preceded in death by his wife, Juanita, a brother, Vincent, a sister-in-law, Ann, a daughter, Jan Holmes and son-in-law, Shary. Visitation will be from 12:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 27, 2004. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 28, 2004. Both services will be at Chapel of Sunrise, 7601 Wyoming Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, followed by burial at Sandia Memorial Gardens. | |
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Buried |
Sandia Memory Gardens Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, NM | 28 October 2004 | Sandia Memory Gardens Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico |
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Based |
Hethel | Assigned to 565BS, 389BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Dugan & Stewart's 'Ploesti'
