Harry S Bengry Jr

Military
media-7285.jpeg UPL 7285 Beverly Ballard Crew
Shot down 6 March 1944
Standing: Roland Johnson - B, Harry Bengry - CP, B.E. Ballard - P, Eugene Singer - N, James Lewis - TG.


Kneeling: Raymond Rice NTG (3/E), Victor Krueger - BTG, Ralph Kracker - WG, James Nemeth RO, Edwin Sowles - TTG/E

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Object Number - UPL 7285 - Beverly Ballard Crew Shot down 6 March 1944 Standing: Roland Johnson - B, Harry Bengry - CP, B.E. Ballard - P, Eugene Singer - N, James Lewis - TG....

After being badly damaged over Berlin on a mission to Genshagen near Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-24H #42-52450 crashed on the return N of Amsterdam. Killed in Action (KIA).

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'

458th Bomb Group

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

People

Beverly E Ballard

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-805152
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Roland W Johnson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-752754
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

Ralph C Kracker

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35595479
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Victor W Krueger

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 36289442
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

James N Lewis

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 17127576
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Aircraft

42-52450

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Lansing, Michigan, USA 3 November 1918 The son of Harry Stuart Bengry Sr and Lola Lucy (Sharp) Bengry

Enlisted

Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States 21 July 1942

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

Germany 6 March 1944
Lansing, Michigan, United States

Buried

DeWitt, Michigan, United States Harry Bengry Jr rests at the Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens

Revisions

Date
ContributorLucy May
Changes
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3350, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces & Page 273 of the book LIBERAORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010 &

href="http://www.458bg.com/crew52ballard.htm">http://www.458bg.com/crew52ballard.htm>

Date
ContributorED-BB
Changes
Sources

NARA WWII Enlistment records
MACR 3350
458th Bomb Group page for the Beverly BALLARD crew: http://www.458bg.com/crew52ballard.htm
Burial : http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bengry&GSfn=Harry…;
Michigan State College, East Lansing magazine “The RECORD”, September 1944, page 2 at http://spartanhistory.kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/1/4/1-4-12DC-54-1944090…

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

MACR 3350 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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Object number: UPL 7285 - Beverly Ballard Crew Shot down 6 March 1944...