George Clifford Montgomery
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Pilot
388th BG - 560th BS
Aphrodite Project
Object Number - UPL 43606 - 1LT George C. Montgomery Pilot 388th BG - 560th BS Aphrodite Project
Assigned to 560BS, 388BG, AF USAAF. Pilot B-17 42-30793 (mission navigation support) on Aphrodite [remote controlled flying bomb] mission to V1 missile site at Wizernes, France. 4-Aug-44.
Awards: AM (4OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.
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- Date: 1 April 1944
![A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31330) of the 452nd Bomb Group releases its bombs over an airdrome in Bordeaux. Printed caption on reverese: '61732 AC- BOMBS AWAY!!!! A Beoing B-17 "Flying Fortress" of the 452nd Bomb Group releases its bombs on the Nazi airdrome, Bordeaux, France, as the air offensive against the enemy reaches an all time high. 27 March 1944. US Air Force Photo.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-380650.jpg?itok=M5KW6ZzF)
- Date: 27 March 1944
- Date: 23 March 1944
![A B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Ruth L", flown by Lieutenant NL Young, of the 96th Bomb Group flies through a cascade of bombs released by another Fortress over Oranienburg, Germany. Strike camera photo. Handwritten caption on reverse: '22/3/44. Looks like JW code - 92BG? [sic]Supposedly Bremen raid but bombs look like M47.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-408680.jpg?itok=-Lutusi4)
- Date: 22 March 1944
- Date: 20 March 1944
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Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Brownwood, TX | 7 February 1917 | Son of Columbus David and Eva Ester [Stroope] Montgomery. |
Enlisted |
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX | 13 June 1941 | Fort Sam Houston, Texas |
Other 388th BG Combat Tour |
Knettishall Airfield | 20 March 1944 - 4 August 1944 | 40 Combat Missions 1 Aphrodite Mission |
Died |
Brady, TX | 28 September 1982 | |
Brady, TX | |||
Buried/ Commemorated |
Resthaven Cemetery Brady, McCulloch County, TX | Resthaven Cemetery Brady, McCulloch County, Texas, Plot 26 |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.388bg.info/Personnel.html