Maurice Earl Chapman

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Assigned to 733BS, 453BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Brunswick in B-24 41-28745; shot down 8-May-44, Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 4590

Awards: PH

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Units served with

453rd Bomb Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

733rd Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

People

Salvatore J Giombarrese

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 733rd Bomb Squadron
Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
Role/Job: Radio Operator and Waist Gunner

Fred Vernon Parker

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 733rd Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: O-735812
Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

41-28745

Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
Nicknames: The Bold Sea Rover
Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 486th Bomb Group 733rd Bomb Squadron 835th Bomb Squadron

Places

Aerial photograph of Old Buckenham airfield looking east, the bomb dump is upper left, the technical site and sick quarters are below the airfield, 9 November 1943. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC73. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Missaukee, MI	19 June 1921	Son of Earl Wesley and Rena Chapman.
Enlisted	Kalamazoo, MI	28 October 1942	Kalamazoo, Michigan
Died	Salzdahlum, Germany	8 May 1944	Failed to Return (FTR) Brunswick in B-24 41-28745; shot down 8-May-44, Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 4590
Based Killed in Action (KIA)	Old Buckenham	8 May 1944	Assigned to 733BS, 453BG, 8AF USAAF.
Buried	Riverside Cemetery Mount Pleasant, Isabella County, MI		Re-Interred Riverside Cemetery Mount Pleasant, Isabella County, Michigan

Revisions

Date17 Jan 2021 14:07:04

ContributorAl_Skiff

ChangesChanges to middlename, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations

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Date27 Sep 2014 18:19:52

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4590 / MACR 4590, The Liberator Men of Old Buc / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database