L G Airhart
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 547th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Grafton Undermud
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Texas, USA | 22 May 1922 | |
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Enlisted |
Lubbock, TX, USA | 14 October 1942 | Residence: Swisher County, Texas Private, Air Corps |
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Other Assigned |
2 August 1944 | Assigned to the 384th Bomb Group, 544th Bomb Squadron on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #155 dated 2 August 1944, Raymond J. Gabel Crew. 35 combat missions. | |
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Other Crash Landing |
30 November 1944 | Engineer/Top Turret Gunner on #43-38542, Landed with wheels up due to confusion in the cockpit during final approach. | |
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Died |
24 March 1993 | Burial: Happy Cemetery Happy Swisher County Texas, USA |
Revisions
Flagged as a "NAME_ISSUE" in the Nickname field so an Admin can check out this person.
Corrected the name by moving "G" from the first name field to the middle name field.
http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/person.php?PersonKey=4995
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=airhart&GSfn=l&GS…;
http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=1&cat=WR26&tf…
2015-08-05 – Consolidated duplicated records for L G Airhart drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=a...
AAIR 44-11-30-510 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database