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.'

461st Bomb Group

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

People

Philip James Crossman

  • 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

42-50953

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

Places

Torretta

  • 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.

Revisions

Date19 Dec 2019 12:00:42
ContributorAl_Skiff
Sources

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