Othello Dale Smith

Military
media-45393.jpeg UPL 45393 1LT Othello Dale Smith
Pilot
388th BG - 562nd BS 388th Bomb Group collection

Object Number - UPL 45393 - 1LT Othello Dale Smith Pilot 388th BG - 562nd BS

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Units served with

Missions

Ground crew attend to a crashed P-51 Mustang nicknamed "Baby Jo" of the 357th Fighter Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: ' Lt Noel Breen ran out of fuel 9 Feb '45.'
  • Date: 9 February 1945
A B-17 Flying Fortress (EP-E, serial number 42-31767) nicknamed "Our Gal Sal" of the 100th Bomb Group at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group. Written on slide casing: 'Our Gal Sal EP-E, 231767 at Mount Farm.'
  • Date: 31 December 1944
A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5725) nicknamed "This is IT!" of the 381st Bomb Group opens her bomb bay doors during a mission.
  • Date: 30 December 1944
  • Date: 28 December 1944

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Kansas City, MO 21 July 1924

Other

388th BG Combat Tour

Knettishall Airfield, UK 16 November 1944 - 16 April 1945

Died

10 May 1994

Buried

Kansas City, MO 14 May 1994 Floral Hills Cemetery Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
Shawnee Mission, KS

Other

MD & Professor

Lawrence, KS University of Kansas Medical School Pathology Dept

Othello Dale Smith: Gallery (3 items)