Glen H Alexander
Military
Object Number - UPL 14472 - Crew # 647 & 460 Glen H. Alexander Crew 466th BG - 786th and 784th Bomb Squadrons Top Row Left to Right: Lowell K. Halls (B), Clifton B. Stauff...
Lead Crew Squadron Operations Officer
AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster/ DFC
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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
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 786th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32421543
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 786th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 786th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16144781
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-814541
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Dirty Gertie
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Piccadilly Commando
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Polaris II
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 785th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Reliable Babe
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Lady Too
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 30 October 1944
- Date: 22 October 1944
- Date: 9 October 1944
- Date: 6 October 1944
- Date: 11 September 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Chatham, Illinois | 27 August 1921 | |
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Other Mission |
Ludwigshafen, Germany | 31 July 1944 | Ceiling was practically in the ground. We seemed to hit the soup as soon as we pulled off the runway. Visibility was barely a mile. We bombed from 25,000 feet. Temperature was -30C. Heavy flak, but we caught none of it (or so I thought). Parks (R/O) oxygen mask came disconnected over the target while he was holding the bomb bay doors open. I looked around and saw him weaving over the doors with no chute on. I jumped out of my seat to grab him and I was exhausted by the time I reached him. We both laid on the flight deck half conscious while we each signaled to the other that we were okay. Tootell (FE) finally came up from the waist to see why the bomb bay doors were still open. He found us some walk around bottles and we both soon came around. We made an instrument let down with about an 800 foot ceiling. Broke out right over Swanton Morley airfield and split the field in half. I found out later that our tail turret power system had been knocked out by flak. - Glen H. Alexander from the book "Attlebridge Arsenal" |
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Died |
Springfield, IL, USA | 16 June 2016 | |
| Chatham, IL, USA |
Revisions
466th BG Archives - Mission Report for 22October 1944
NARA document research provided by Brad Sullivan
466th BG Historian
466th BG Historian
Attlebridge Arsenal - Brassfield & Wassom
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self
