Glenn L Bowers
MilitaryAssigned to 487FS, 352FG, 8AF USAAF. Ended Tour of Duty (ETD).
Awards: DFC (OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 352nd Fighter Group 487th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11056529 / O-694045
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Fighter pilot
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Royal Air Force Bodney
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Based |
Bodney | 2 May 1944 - 10 February 1945 | Assigned to 487FS, 352FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Other D-Day mission |
Neuberg, Germany | 6 June 1944 | Flying as wingman to 1Lt Robert K Butler on 6th June 44 strafing mission to Neuberg when Butler was shot down. |
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Other Promotion |
Bodney, Thetford IP26, UK | 24 June 1944 | Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. |
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Other Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster Awarded |
10 September 1944 | Awarded a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster to his DFC for an attack on a German Airfield where he attacked and neutralized a FLAK tower and three machine-gun emplacements. In passes that followed, all visible parked enemy aircraft, approximately 20, were destroyed. | |
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Other End Tour of Duty (ETD) |
England, UK | 10 February 1945 | Ended Tour of Duty (ETD). |
Revisions
ContributorHotelie1970
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Sources
GENERAL ORDER # 495, IX Troop Carrier Command dated 5 November 1944: From Headquarters 1 Bomb Division by Brigadier General Williams.
Contributorgeneral ira snapsorter
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Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia ;
- unit history
ContributorAl_Skiff
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