Homer Howard Moultrie Jr

Military
media-56422.jpeg UPL 56422 2nd Lt Homer H Moultrie Jr, 445BG

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Object Number - UPL 56422 - 2nd Lt Homer H Moultrie Jr, 445BG

Assigned to 700BS, 445BG, 8AF USAAF. Damaged by flak and landed in Switzerland on 31-Jul-44 in B-17 42-107092 'Umbriago'. Interned (INT)





Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), WWII Victory, EAME (1 x Battle Star).

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51681) of the 453rd Bomb Group flies in formation with a fellow Liberator of the 453rd and and a pathfinder Liberator of the 445th Bomb Group. Image via Alan Rowsell.

445th Bomb Group

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

People

Robert Arthur Gallup

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 700th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-680430
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

B-24 Liberators of the 389th Bomb Group and (serial number 42-7571) of the 392nd Bomb Group flyn in formation during a mission.

42-7571

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Lillian Ann II
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 700th Bomb Squadron

Places

Signal Squares on the airfield at Tibenham, B-24 Liberators of the 398th Bomb Group are visible in the background. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Tibenham Signal Squares.'

Tibenham

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Tivetshall

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Waverly Hall, GA 9 August 1916 Son of Sr and Nettie Mae [Byrd] Moultrie.

Enlisted

Fort Jackson, Columbia, SC 16 September 1941 Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina

Other

Interned (INT)

Switzerland 31 July 1944 Damaged by flak and landed in Switzerland on 31-Jul-44 in B-17 42-107092 'Umbriago'. Interned (INT)

Died

27 May 1969

Buried

Greenlawn Memorial Park Columbia, Richland County, SC 30 May 1969 Greenlawn Memorial Park Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina

Based

Tibenham 31 July 1944 Assigned to 700BS, 445BG, 8AF USAAF.

Revisions

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ContributorLucy May
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MACR 6943: https://www.fold3.com/image/1/28670908

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ContributorAAM
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Birsic MACR 6943 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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Object number: UPL 56422 - 2nd Lt Homer H Moultrie Jr, 445BG