Gerald A Knettel
MilitaryGerald Knettel served as a flight enginner/top turret gunner with the 577th Bomb Squadron of the 392nd Bomb Group, flying missions out of Wendling, England. He survived crash of B-24 42-99979 'Kentucky Baby' on 21 April 1944 at North Tuddenham.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
2nd Air Division Memorial Library
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Kentucky Baby
- Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 577th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
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Revisions
Added " / " in the "Role/job" field as a Separator to aid readability.
Brought in information from duplicate record. Source:
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://www.b-24.net/aircrew/knames.html
https://www.americanairmuseum.com/media/27895
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=1&cat=all&tf…
577 roster 2May45, http://www.b24.net/support/knames.html / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia