Glenn Ellis Taylor

Military
media-16036.jpeg UPL 16036 Crew #423 & #539
Wallace C. Clay Crew
466th BG - 784th and 785th Bomb Squadrons

Standing Left to Right: Wallace C. Clay (P), James L. Bruner (CP), George A. Burke (N), Paul W. Beam (B), Leonard Long (FE)

Kneeling Left to Right: Ed Burnett (G), Glenn Taylor (G), George Berens (G), William Summerville (G), Willis Ray (R/O) 466th Bomb Group collection

466th BG Historian

Object Number - UPL 16036 - Crew #423 & #539 Wallace C. Clay Crew 466th BG - 784th and 785th Bomb Squadrons Standing Left to Right: Wallace C. Clay (P), James L. Bruner...

Flew 32 missions over France, Belgium, Holland, Luxemburg and Germany from May 24, 1944 through September 5, 1944. Target cities: Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Saarbrucken, Karlsrhue, Munich, Eisenach, Westermunde, Rostock, Port en Bessen (D-Day), Several V-1 launch sites, Several ground-support missions, St Lo, Fallise Melun, Fr. Melun and others.



DFC, AM 3Oak Leaf Cluster, EAME 4 Stars, Unit Citation

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Units served with

Three little girls hold up a balloon celebrating the 100th mission of the 466th Bomb Group in front of a B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-95592) nicknamed "Black Cat". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'On our 100 Mission party Day- 18 Aug 1944, Attlebridge, 466th- wouldn't it be something if we could identify these girls? How could I do it?'

466th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

George Paul Berens

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37267798
  • Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
  • Role/Job: Gunner

James Lyman Bruner

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-761034
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

George A Burke

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Ed Burnett

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Gunner

Wallace C Clay

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-94915

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Warchamp
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 786th Bomb Squadron

Places

Aerial photograph of Attlebridge airfield, looking north, the fuel store and a T2 hangar are in the upper centre, 31 January 1946. Photograph taken by No. 90 Squadron, sortie number RAF/3G/TUD/UK/51. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Attlebridge

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Rockingham County, North Carolina 29 January 1924

Enlisted

Camp Croft, South Carolina 29302, USA 20 March 1943

Other

466th BG Combat Tour

Attlebridge, Norwich, UK 24 May 1944 - 5 September 1944

Died

Decatur, AL, USA 8 January 2014

Revisions

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From my father's records.

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My father's records.

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"Attlebridge Arsenal" - Brassfield & Wassom, page 70
research provided by genealogist Marcia Melnyk

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466th BG Historian

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self

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