Peter Charles Gilbert Hoppin

Military
media-36943.jpeg UPL 36943 Peter C.G. Hoppin
Pilot
446th BG

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Object Number - UPL 36943 - Peter C.G. Hoppin Pilot 446th BG

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Units served with

A flight of B-24 Liberators of the 446th Bomb Group fly in formation above the clouds.

446th Bomb Group

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

People

Harold Edwin Johnson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group
  • Service Numbers: 17155589
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Gunner

Luther Theodore Newman

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group
  • Service Numbers: O-821341
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Robert P Page

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group

Erling R Tjemsland

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group
  • Service Numbers: 39198617
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Flight Engineer

Thomas W Tomlinson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group

Places

Aerial photograph of Bungay (Flixton) airfield, looking south, the technical site- with T2 hangar- and control tower are to the right, where the main airfield gate is also situated, 16 October 1945. Photograph taken by No. 541 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/930. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Bungay

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Flixton

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Staten Island, New York 16 June 1919

Enlisted

New York, New York, USA 18 December 1940

Died

Pawley's Island, South Carolina 13 December 2011 Peter Charles Gilbert Hoppin | Peter C.G. Hoppin Pawleys Island Peter "Pete" Charles Gilbert Hoppin age 92, died Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at Carolinas Medical Center. Born in Staten Island, NY, he was a son of the late Gilbert and Edith Hoppin. Pete was a retired U. S. Air Force veteran and retired Civil Service contract negotiator. He flew combat in WWII and the Korean War. Pete flew with the 446th during WWII, flying B24's. Later he flew B52's with the Strategic Air Command group. He was a member of All Saints Parish.

Buried

Pawley's Island, South Carolina 17 December 2011 All Saints Episcopal Church Cemetery Pawleys Island, Georgetown County, South Carolina, USA
Staten Island, New York 153 Henderson Avenue

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Chris Brassfield Collection - Special Orders # 33 - Movement Orders - HQ 18th Replacement Wing SLC, Utah 2 February 1944

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AAF Record Transcriptions

Burial-All Saints Episcopal Church Cemetery-Pawley's Island, South Carolina
FindaGrave Memorial
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89528771/peter-charles-hoppin

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.446bg.com/

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Object number: UPL 36943 - Peter C.G. Hoppin Pilot 446th BG