Elmo E Maiden
Military
Object Number - UPL 23798 - 1LT Elmo Maiden Pilot 466th BG - 786th BS
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: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33748517
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: Nose Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35067335
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 4 April 1945
- Date: 31 March 1945
- Date: 24 March 1945
- Date: 21 March 1945
- Date: 20 March 1945
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Based |
Attlebridge | 5 October 1944 - 4 April 1945 | |
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Other Landed |
Great Ashfield, Bury Saint Edmunds IP31, UK | 18 October 1944 | Landed at Great Ashfield due to weather and/or fuel shortage after returning from a mission to Cologne. |
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Other Mission #17 |
Le Bourget, France | 27 December 1944 | Lost engines #3 and #4 and only had 1/2 power on #2. This happened about 10 miles SE or Verdun. Made a low speed landing without brakes at Le Bourget Airfield. Used up all the run way, killed a jackrabbit and snapped off the nose gear before coming to a stop. B-24J-5-DT #42-51352 |
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Born |
Kansas City, KS, USA | ||
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Other Graduated |
Lawrence, KS, USA | BS - Mechanical Engineering Kansas University Played varsity basketball, football and baseball under legendary coach Phog Allen |
Revisions
466th BG Archives - Mission Report for 22 Oct 1944
NARA Research done by Brad Sullivan
Source is WW II pilot Elmo Maiden
"Attlebridge Diaries" - John Woolnough
page 134
Attlebridge Arsenal - Brassfield & Wassom
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum Membership List, July 2000
