Walter W Shipley

Military

Plane was 'Rosie's Rivets' Shot down over Omaha Beach 22 June 1944. Flew 30 missions. Spent 2 months in the fall of 1944 hauling gas into France and Belgium.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 448th Bomb Group.

448th Bomb Group

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

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AAF Record Transcriptions

Burial-Crown Crest Memorial Park-Hyde,PA
FindaGrave Memorial
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118608114/walter-leroy-shipley

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / John B. Smith, cousin