Wallace B Davis

Military
media-36182.jpeg UPL 36182 1Lt Wallace "Wally" B Davis and crew, Lt Davis o the back row nr 7

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Object Number - UPL 36182 - 1Lt Wallace "Wally" B Davis and crew, Lt Davis o the back row nr 7

Plane, 43-37827, was named 'Wally's Wagon. ' 35 missions: Aug 13 Les Planches, Fr; 14 Stuttgart, Ger; 16 Leipzig, Ger; 18 Leige, Bel; 25 Peenemunde, Ger; 26 Gelsenkirchen, Ger; 30 Kiel, Ger; Sep 1 Paris, Fr; 3 Mannheim, Ger; 9 Mannheim, Ger; 10 Stuttgart, Ger; 11 Merseberg, Ger; 22 Kassel Ger; 25 Frankfort, Ger; 26 Osnabruck, Ger; 27 Cologne, Ger; 28 Magdeburg; 30 Munster; Oct 2 Kassel; 3 Nurnburg; 6 Stettin; 7 Zwieckan, Czech. border; 25 Hamburg, Ger; 26 Bielefeld, Ger; 30 Munster, Ger; Nov 2 Merseberg, Ger; 4 Harbourg, Ger; 5 Frankfort, Ger; 9 Saarbrucken, Ger; 16 Aachan, Ger; 25 Merseberg, Ger; 29 Osnabruch, Ger; 30 Merseberg, Ger; Dec 4 Kassel, Ger; 5 Berlin, Ger; 6 Merseberg, Ger. Upon return to U. S. was reassigned to Air Transport Command.



AM w/ 5 Oak Leaf Cluster/ PUC

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Units served with

Unofficial emblem, 305th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Wally's Wagon, Sweet Seventeen
  • Unit: 305th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron

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Born

Asheville, North Carolina 27 February 1916

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self

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