Frank Wescott Aaronson Jr

Military

Assigned to 701BS, 445BG, 8AF USAAF.

 

Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), American campaign, EAME (2BS), WWII Victory.

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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

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Mount Holly, NJ, USA 19 July 1924 Born Mount Holly, New Jersey

Enlisted

Fort Dix, New Jersey 3 July 1942 Enlisted Fort Dix, New Jersey

Other

Discharged

30 September 1947

Died

Clearwater, Florida 11 July 2002 Died Clearwater, Florida

Buried/ Commemorated

Mount Holly Cemetery Mount Holly, New Jersey 14 July 2002 Interred Mount Holly Cemetery Mount Holly, New Jersey

Revisions

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Obituary Burlington Co Times NJ July 12, 2002

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Obituary Burlington Co Times NJ July 12, 2002

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ContributorDeemax
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Ancestry.com. U.S., Select Military Registers, 1862-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.
Original data: United States Military Registers, 1902–1985. Salem, Oregon: Oregon State Library.

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ContributorAAM
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Birsic, 31 July 1944 Roster AAF #124 & SECOND AIR DIVISION by Turner Publishing Company, D790.A2S45, 1998, page 192 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia