Valden Alexander Barnson

Military

Assigned to 765BS, 461BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Odertal oil refinery in B-24 42-50953 'Flying Finger'; A/C downed by fighters. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 10677



Awards: AM, PH.

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Units served with

A B-24 Liberator of the 461st Bomb Group, 15th Air Force drops supplies over a Prisoner of War camp in Austria, May 1945. Handwritten caption on reverse: '9 May 1945, Last 'combat' mission of 461st BG to British POW camp near Villack, Austria. #33 flown by Lt John Stegman- 765th BS.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 461st Bomb Group 765th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35540229 / O-709511 / O-56544
  • Highest Rank: Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Flying Finger
  • Unit: 461st Bomb Group 765th Bomb Squadron

Places

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Cerignola #3

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Price, UT 27 March 1923 Son of Christian and Inez Blanche [Morrell] Barnson.

Enlisted

Salt Lake City, UT 6 January 1943 Salt Lake City, Utah

Died

Muglitz, Germany 17 December 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Odertal oil refinery in B-24 42-50953 'Flying Finger'; A/C downed by fighters. KIA MACR 10677

Buried

Roosevelt Memorial Park, Roosevelt, UT Roosevelt Memorial Park Roosevelt, Duchesne County, UT

Based

Torretta 17 December 1944 Assigned to 765BS, 461BG, 8AF USAAF.