John Dexter McNeely

Military

15 January 1945: Killed when his aircraft, Lassie Come Home, crashed on return from a mission to Hermann Goering Works at Halle; all but one of the crew was killed and two children were also killed who were playing in a shed in the garden.

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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

Aircraft

The nose art of a B-24 Liberator (serial number 44-40283) nicknamed "Lassie Come Home" of the 458th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '44-40283- Lassie Come Home- Tracy Pilot.'

44-40283

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Lassie Come Home
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Arkansas 29 November 1922

Enlisted

Little Rock, Arkansas 21 July 1943

Died

14 January 1945

Buried

Cambridge American Cemetery Plot B Row 5 Grave 14

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2nd Air Division Roll of Honor, held in the American Library, Norwich

https://themilecrossman.com/2018/02/14/lassie-come-home/

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Combat Sup / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia