Marshall Bonner

Military
media-24359.jpeg UPL 24359 Colonel Marshall Bonner
Group Commander
464th Bomb Group
He was KIA on a mission to Vienna 26 July 1944

Object Number - UPL 24359 - Colonel Marshall Bonner Group Commander 464th Bomb Group He was KIA on a mission to Vienna 26 July 1944

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A pathfinder B-24 Liberator (serial number 44-49710) nicknamed "Stevonovitch II (Black Nan)" of the 464th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force explodes and rolls over in midair as a result of a direct flak hit, during a mission over Lugo, Italy, 10 April 1945.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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Event Location Date Description

Born

Houston, TX, USA 17 July 1911

Died

Floridsdorf, 1210 Vienna, Austria 26 June 1944 Colonel Marshall Bonnek was born on July 17, 1911 in Houston, Texas, the son of Thomas Hubbard and Ala Perryman Bonner. He graduated from San Jacinto High School in Houston in 1929 and entered the United States Military Academy in the same year. He graduated from the Academy in June 1933, went through flying training at Randolph and Kelly Fields, receiving his wings in October 1934. On June 2, 1942, at the Army War College, he married Kay Fechet, daughter of Major General J. E. Fechet, former chief of the Air Corps. In February 1944 he left for overseas as Commanding Officer of the 464th Heavy Bomb Group, which he had trained at Pocatello, Idaho. On June 26, 1944 he led his group on a raid on the Shell-Florisdorfer Oil Refinery, at Florisdorf, a suburb of Vienna. His plane was hit by flak and he became missing in action. He was finally declared dead by the War Department on November 12, 1945. He was awarded the Silver Star, Air Medal, and the Purple Heart, all posthumously. He is survived by his wife, Kay Fechet Bonner; his mother; and his sister, Margaret Bonner.

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Graduated

West Point, NY, USA United States Military Academy Graduated 11th in his class Commissioned 2nd Lt.

Buried

Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial Epinal Departement des Vosges Lorraine, France

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