Roy Ellsworth Trask
MilitaryAssigned to 369BS, 306BG, 8AF USAAF. Completed 35 missions. ETD
Awards: DFC, AM (6OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.
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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
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Steady Hedy
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 92nd Bomb Group 327th Bomb Squadron
Places
![A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group wave to Picture Post Girls in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24471) nicknamed "Four of a Kind" at Thurleigh in December 1942. Image stamped on reverse: '"Picture Post" [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 11 Dec 1942.' [stamp], '238038.' [Censor no.] Handwritten in censor's blue pencil on reverse: 'American Flying Fortress crew are introduced to the girls they will meet at Picture Post Xmas Party.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379028.jpg.webp?itok=6Gc6iR0j)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
New Orleans, LA | 8 February 1919 | Son Roy Edmund and Mary Frances 'Mayme' [Verneuille] Foster. |
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Enlisted |
New Orleans, LA | 27 August 1942 | New Orleans, Louisiana |
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Died |
Chattanooga, TN | 20 December 2006 | |
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Buried |
Lakewood Memorial Park Jackson, Hinds County, MS | 23 December 2006 | Lakewood Memorial Park Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi |
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Based |
Thurleigh | Assigned to 369BS, 306BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
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Changes
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Sources
306th BG Association Directory, 1 September 1999 Edition, Combat Crews pg. 113, / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia