Francis C Houston

Military

Flew 12 missions as a B-17 tail gunner



See obituary here: http://www.toledoblade.com/Deaths/2015/01/27/Francis-C-Houston-1925-201…

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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

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

Born

Detroit, MI, USA 15 June 1925

Other

Married Bernadine Clifford

Detroit, MI, USA 2 August 1947

Died

Sylvania, OH, USA 24 January 2015

Other

Graduated from Cooley High School

Cooley High School, Detroit, MI 48227, USA

Revisions

Date
ContributorLucy May
Changes
Sources

Obituary published in the Toledo Blade: http://www.toledoblade.com/Deaths/2015/01/27/Francis-C-Houston-1925-201…

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

486th BG/833rd BS / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia