Franklin Thomas Rose

Military
media-56037.jpeg UPL 56037 S/Sgt. Franklin T. Rose - Ball Turret

Collection of T/Sgt. Thomas J. Campana

Object Number - UPL 56037 - S/Sgt. Franklin T. Rose - Ball Turret

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





Awards: AM (3OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.

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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

Aircraft

A B-24 Liberator (MK-A) of the 701st Bomb Squadron, 445th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '445 BG, Roger.'

42-50609

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Skyline Drive
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 701st Bomb Squadron

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

Greenwood, PA 18 December 1917 Son of Edgar A. and Dorothy [Powell] Rose.

Enlisted

Wilkes Barre, PA 1 January 1943 Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

Other

Discharged USAAF

Fort George Meade, MD 31 August 1945 Honourable discharge.

Died

Chula Vista, CA 6 August 1999

Buried

Glen Abbey Memorial Park Bonita, San Diego County, CA 9 August 1999 Glen Abbey Memorial Park Bonita, San Diego County, California

Based

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

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Collection of T/Sgt Thomas J Campana

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Birsic, SO#265 12 Oct 44 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

Franklin Thomas Rose: Gallery (3 items)

Object number: UPL 56033 - The Augustus C. Tracy Lead Crew. Top Row L-R; Maj...

Object number: UPL 56037 - S/Sgt. Franklin T. Rose - Ball Turret

Object number: UPL 56413 - Franklin Thomas Rose - WWII Compensation form.