James Hugh Thompson Jr
Military
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UPL 31434
Dunnam, bottom row, 2nd from the left.
from Ariel M. Dunnam
Arrived Europe, 1944, flew 2 missions with 492nd until disbanded, transferred to 467th BG. Flew 5 missions with Crew 15 Blackwell Dunnama crew, grounded due to illness/ulcers. listed as Duty Soldier III. Returned home on, but not part of, Lt. Ted Wheeler's crew in May 1945
Many
Transferred 467th BG
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- 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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Go Getter | Fate's Fortune
- Unit: 467th Bomb Group 789th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Bold Venture III
- Unit: 467th Bomb Group 492nd Bomb Group 788th Bomb Squadron 859th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Umbriago
- Unit: 467th Bomb Group 788th Bomb Squadron 492nd Bomb Group 859th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Monster! ; Irishman's Shanty
- Unit: 467th Bomb Group 492nd Bomb Group 788th Bomb Squadron 859th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 10 September 1944
- Date: 26 August 1944
- Date: 16 August 1944
- Date: 23 March 1944
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Lamont, Missouri | 2 September 1916 | |
Died |
22 March 1995 | ||
Buried |
Greenlawn Cemetery Franklin, Indiana |
Revisions
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Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roster supplied by Dave Arnett / grandson