Ernest S Matheron

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media-12905.jpeg UPL 12905 1st Lieutenant Ernest S. Matheron, back row second from left, and his B24 crew at Tibenham, England in 1944.

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Object Number - UPL 12905 - 1st Lieutenant Ernest S. Matheron, back row second from left, and his B24 crew at Tibenham, England in 1944.

Ernie flew 42 missions while stationed in England. He never had an injury to any crewman earning him the motto on his B-24 "Fly with Ernie and live to fly another day!"

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51681) of the 453rd Bomb Group flies in formation with a fellow Liberator of the 453rd and and a pathfinder Liberator of the 445th Bomb Group. Image via Alan Rowsell.

445th Bomb Group

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

Places

Signal Squares on the airfield at Tibenham, B-24 Liberators of the 398th Bomb Group are visible in the background. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Tibenham Signal Squares.'

Tibenham

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Tivetshall

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Birsic, 31 July 1944 Roster AAF #124 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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