Gilbert Arnold Borba
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Family held document
Object Number - UPL 41452 - R-L, Sgt Gilbert Borba, Sgt Donald Rieger and Sgt Peter Martin (Unk mechanic)
Sgt Gilbert A. Borba, only survivor, all other crew were Killed in Action (KIA) 08-08-1944. Shot down by flak and crashed near St Sylvain, France in B-17 "Varga Venus" #43-37865.
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Units served with
People
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 20 July 1944
- Date: 19 July 1944
- Official Description:
- Date: 12 July 1944
- Date: 11 July 1944
- Date: 25 June 1944
Places
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
13 July 1923 | ||
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Enlisted |
9 February 1943 | ||
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
8 August 1944 - 1 June 1945 | France RAMP Camp #1, APO 562 | |
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Died |
4 March 1983 | ||
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Buried |
10 March 1983 | Pioneer Cemetery 66 Marin Street Watsonville, CA 95076 Section 5, Lot 80 |
Revisions
Capitalized the words in the "Role/job" field to aid readability.
Added an Association to the 100th BG, the parent bomb group of the 349th, 350th, 351st & 418th Bomb Squadrons & the 412th Air Service group.
Added an Association to “Thorpe Abbotts”, the home base of the 100th BG.
Added a "-" to the A/C tail # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 8073 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database