Meload C Joseph

Military
Meload Joseph UPL 64658 UPL 64658 S/Sgt Meload C Joseph

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Object Number - UPL 64658 - S/Sgt Meload C Joseph

Assigned to 612BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF. 54 x missions from Feb-June 1944.

 

Awards:  AM (5OLC), EAME (2BS), WWII Victory.

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

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

People

Harry Hershey

Harry Junior Hershey

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 612th Bomb Squadron 401st Bomb Group
  • Service Numbers: 17064934 / O-803198
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-31087

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Heaven Can Wait, Boche Buster
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

42-31496

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Salvo Sadie
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
Ground personnel of the 401st Bomb Group stand with a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31662) nicknamed "Fancy Nancy IV" after fixing her engines. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Another famous Fort and her crew.'

42-31662

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Fancy Nancy IV
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

1 January 1923

Lived in

South Bellingham, Massachusetts 3 April 1944 South Bellingham, Massachusetts

Other

Discharged

15 October 1945

Died

23 September 2023

Revisions

Date
ContributorAl_Skiff
Changes
Sources

https://www.fold3.com/record/83442414/meload-c-joseph-us-wwii-army-enlistment-records-1938-1946

http://401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=1276

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Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=1276

Meload C Joseph: Gallery (3 items)

Meload Joseph

Object number: UPL 64658 - S/Sgt Meload C Joseph

Meload Joseph

Object number: UPL 64663 - S/Sgt Meload C Joseph

42-31496 Salvo Sadie

Object number: UPL 64681 - B-17 42-31496 'Salvo Sadie' with Hershey crew Rear...