William Folk Evans
Military
Object Number - UPL 31618 - DALY'S CREW Pyote Air Base, Texas - September 1943 Front Row (L-R) 1 John Daly, Pilot 2 Robert Koerber, Copilot 3 William Evans, Navigator 4...
Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 17 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Sorau, Germany mission 11-Apr-44 'Tenny Belle' exploded in mid-air near Downham Market, England. Sole survivor, blown out of A/C with chute. Wounded in Action (WIA) RTD. No MACR
Awards: AM (OLC), PH, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-805776
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35579373
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-755018
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier; Navigator; Bombardier Instructor
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15103734 / O-692968
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37406828
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio man
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars 94th Bomb Group 324th Bomb Squadron 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Tenny Belle
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: London Avenger
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 7 May 1944
- Date: 1 May 1944
- Date: 20 April 1944
- Date: 19 April 1944
- Date: 11 April 1944
Places
Official War Department document/Open Source.
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Rattlesnake Bomber Base
- Site type: Military site
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Kinards, SC | 13 June 1921 | Son of S B Evans. |
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Based |
Pyote Army Airfield | 23 September 1943 - 8 December 1943 | B-17 Flying Fortress crew training |
|
Based |
Kimbolton | 20 February 1944 | Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. |
|
Died |
Columbus, GA | 2 December 2005 | |
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Buried |
Woodlawn Memorial Park Greenville, Greenville County, SC | 5 December 2005 | Woodlawn Memorial Park Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina |
|
Based |
Snettisham | 19 February 1944 | Intensive gunnery training |
Revisions
Joseph W Jennings Military Papers 1943-1945
http://8thairforce.com/members/missionsflownby.asp?perIdentification=41…
379th Bombardment Group Anthology, Volume 2: November 1942-July 1945
379th mission database
379th mission database
379th mission database
personal records
8th AF mission database
Joseph W. Jennings Military Papers - 1943-1945
Joseph W. Jennings Military Papers - 1943-1945
Bibliography: [Betz, Frank L. and Kenneth H. Cassens editors]. 379th Bombardment Group (H) Anthology, Volume One: November 1942-July 1945. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, 2000, p. 302
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avail/known data
379th Bombardment Group (H) Anthology, 1942-45; p.160 and 302 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
