Doyle Hicks

Military

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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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...

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Medicine Mound, Texas	7 September 1916	Son of Ira Lee and Lillie Bell [Holmes] Hicks.
Enlisted		8 February 1941
Other Discharged USAAF		13 April 1946	Honourable discharge.
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.
Buried	Sandia Memory Gardens Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, NM	28 October 2004	Sandia Memory Gardens Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico
Based	Hethel		Assigned to 565BS, 389BG, 8AF USAAF.

Date25 Mar 2022 09:51:36

ContributorAl_Skiff

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Date27 Sep 2014 18:07:47

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

Object number: UPL 56381 - Capt Doyle Hicks, 389BG.

Object number: UPL 56382 - Capt Doyle Hicks, 389BG.