Edmund A Klar

Military

Assigned to 832BS, 486BG, 8AF USAAF.

 

Awards: EAME, WWII Victory

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Units served with

A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.

486th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

43-39091

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: California's Golden Bare
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron

Places

Aerial photograph of Sudbury airfield looking south west, the bomb dump is to the upper right of the airfield, 29 February 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC188. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).

Sudbury

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Acton

Events

Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

Fort Sheridan, Illinois 24 May 1944 EnlistedFort Sheridan, Illinois

Revisions

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Sources

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / WWW.486th.org roster