Ralph Wendell Wright
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Object Number - UPL 54421 - 2nd Lt Ralph W Wright, 100BG.
Killed in B-17 42-38053 'Cap'n Crow' in a form up accident over the base. on 7-May-44. Target was Berlin. The plane had flares stored in the top turret and for some reason they exploded and the pilot ordered the crew to bail out The pilot Wright and Raper were possibly overcome by fumes and passed out. The rest of the crew bailed out, in all 5 of the crew were killed. Killed in Action (KIA)
Awards: AM (OLC), PH.
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Units served with
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 349th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34211048
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 349th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36559569
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 349th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-815966
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 349th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
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Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Oklahoma | 17 December 1922 | |
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Died |
Herringfleet, Lowestoft, Suffolk UK | 7 May 1944 | |
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Buried |
Cambridge American Cemetery | 8 May 1944 | Buried with his Co-Pilot, Jack Raper. Cambridge American Cemetery Coton, Cambs, UK Plot G Row 4 Grave 159 |
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Based |
Thorpe Abbotts | 7 May 1944 | Assigned to 349BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Find A Grave Memorial# 55902978
American Battle Monuments Commission
www.usaafdata.com
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Final Flights, Ian McLachlan, ©1989
Combat Chronology p. 130 Supplement p. 432 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia