Walter Loraine Johnson

Military
media-16255.jpeg UPL 16255 Crew #774
Walter L. Johnson Crew
466th BG - 774th BS

Standing Left to Right: Arthur L. Rivkin (CP), Walter R. Johnson (P), Stanford Goldberg (N)

Kneeling Left to Right: Livingston Andre (G), Gilbert M. Widdowson (G), Conrad J. Sedlak (R/O), Harry Goldstein (FE), Frank M. Boyce (G), Francis C. Main (G)

466th Bomb Group collection

466th BG Historian

Object Number - UPL 16255 - Crew #774 Walter L. Johnson Crew 466th BG - 774th BS Standing Left to Right: Arthur L. Rivkin (CP), Walter R. Johnson (P), Stanford Goldberg...

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  • Date: 6 February 1945
  • Date: 14 January 1945
  • Date: 7 January 1945
A B-17 Flying Fortress (EP-E, serial number 42-31767) nicknamed "Our Gal Sal" of the 100th Bomb Group at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group. Written on slide casing: 'Our Gal Sal EP-E, 231767 at Mount Farm.'
  • Date: 31 December 1944
B-17s of the 398th Bomb Group bombing the railyard at Bingen, 29 December 1944. Printed caption on reverse: '57548 AC- With bomb bay doors open, the first of a large formation of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses send their bombs plummeting earthwards on rail installations at Bingen, Germany, as heavy bombers of US Eighth Air Force press home their attack of December 29, 1944. US Air Force Photo.'
  • Date: 29 December 1944

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Iola, KS 66749, USA 7 June 1923

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466th BG Combat Tour

Attlebridge, Norwich, Norfolk NR9, UK 20 November 1944 - 21 April 1945 Completed 25 combat missions

Died

Springfield, MO, USA 10 June 2005

Buried

Springfield, MO, USA 14 June 2005 Springfield National Cemetery Springfield Greene County Missouri, USA Plot: Sect J Gr 305

Other

Graduated

Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA Doctorate of Sociology Yale University
Iola, KS 66749, USA 215 N. 3rd Street

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit roster in the book ATTLEBRIDGE ARSENAL by Wassom & Brassfield, page 347

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