James Merrit Bradley
Military
Top row, left to right: Hendrix, Gates, Reeser, Norton, Gross.
Bottom row , left to right. James Bradley, Wiggins, Scott, Cole (Cole was pilot that went down with plane when they were shot down over France, Jan 1944 James M Bradley
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Object Number - UPL 21951 - James M Bradley (Lower right, front row) and crew. 8th AF, 96th Bomb Group, 339th Squadron, England 1943. Top row, left to right: Hendrix, Gates,...
Joined 13 June 1942. Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-30665 'Hunyak'. Evaded. Escape & Evasion Report E&E 882. Released from active duty 23 December 1945.
Married Ruth Virginia Cramer - May 4, 1946 - Newport, OR. Attended Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. Settled in Monroe, OR 1953.
Survived by: daughter: Deborah Ayers (Vancouver, WA - James) and son John (Jack) Bradley (Halfway, OR). Three grand daughters - Brandy, Tracy and Jennifer. 9 great grand children, 1 great great grand child.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19038435 at enlistment, then O-421049
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 6394292
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13012941
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13153161
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19091460
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 5 January 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Station 138
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Elida, NM 88116, USA | 4 September 1921 | Elida, New Mexico |
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Enlisted |
10 January 1942 | in Santa Fe, New Mexico | |
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Other Evaded (EVD) |
Rochevent, 17810, France | 5 January 1944 - 7 August 1944 | Helped by French citizens and members of the Résistance, he was led to many places in France and was ultimately hidden in a huge Maquis camp East of Luchapt. He and Left Waist Gunner Clarence Norton and another evading American airman participated in Maquis operations against the Germans, in a joint force with the British SAS (Special Air Service.) Bradley, Norton and the 3rd US airman were then brought North to an airfield at Villemort, also in the Vienne Department of France. Flown back to England in an RAF Hudson, they landed at Tempsford in the morning of 7 August 1944. |
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Died Evaded |
Sublimity, OR 97385, USA | 5 July 2012 | Sublimity, Oregon |
Revisions
NARA WWII Enlistment records
MACR 2014
Escape & Evasion Report E&E 882
Brought in information from duplicate record. Source:
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2014; Snetterton Falcons pg 97
MACR 2014 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
