Richard J Comey
MilitaryTook part in Operation Tidal Wave, the raid on Ploesti on 1 August 1943, flying B-24 Liberator 41-23936.
On 20 Jan 1944, B-24H 41-29182 (an aircraft of the 93rd Bomb Group) overshot the runway on landing at Metfield on return from local training flight from Hardwick.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
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AccidentReports.com,;
8th AF Losses;
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ploesti by Dugan & Stewart & Page 236 in the book SECOND AIR DIVISIONby Turner Publishing Company, 1998, D790.A2S45