Ivan M Wright | American Air Museum in Britain

Crew #751 & #483 Ivan M. Wright Crew 466th BG - 787th and 784th Bomb Squadrons B-24J-1-FO #42-95617 "Jennie" Code: T9-I Standing Left to Right: Harold E. Hansen (B), Edward C. Brown (N), Edward M. Ritts (CP), Ivan M. Wright (P) Kneeling Left to Right: John D. Van Nest (G), Arthur A. Danekas (G), Vern C. Rhoades (R/O), Robert P. Nichols (FE), John W. Fee (G), Geranld K. Novell (G)

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Lead Crew Commendation - Ivan M. Wright Crew - Crew #483 466th Bomb Group - 784th Bomb Squadron 25 February 1945 Schwabisch Hall, Germany

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Service

Edward Brown

Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 466th Bomb Group
Flew 30 missions (Lead Crew) July 1944-VE Day. See Ivan M. Wright for a list of missions.
Arthur Danekas

Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
See pilot, Ivan M. Wright, for list of missions.
Roy Evans

Military | First Lieutenant | Radar (H2X) Navigator | 466th Bomb Group
John Fee

Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Walter Guhde

Military | First Lieutenant | Pilotage Navigator/Bombardier | 466th Bomb Group
Harold Hansen

Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 466th Bomb Group
Robert Nichols

Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Flight Engineer | 466th Bomb Group
Gerald Novell

Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Vern Rhoades

Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Radio Operator | 466th Bomb Group
Edward Ritts

Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 466th Bomb Group

466th Bomb Group

Group
The 466th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Attlebridge, Norfolk, during the last year of the war in Europe. The Group flew 232 missions in the course of the year and celebrated the 100th one by inviting local people onto the base to mark the...
784th Bomb Squadron

Squadron
787th Bomb Squadron

Squadron

590

30 August 1944
End of Operation Overlord. ...
605

5 September 1944
611

8 September 1944
We snafued on the bomb run and missed all the flak.
623

11 September 1944
Major Harmon flew Command Pilot. Did not hit the target because Mickey wasn't working. Brought our bombs back. Got to shoot at some fighters.
681

17 October 1944
682

18 October 1944
685

22 October 1944
693

30 October 1944
709

10 November 1944
715

16 November 1944

Attlebridge

Military site : airfield
Attlebridge was constructed for RAF use and completed to that standard in 1942. However, with news that it was to be assigned to the American Air Force, the runways were extended and additional hardstandings and outbuildings constructed for the heavy...

Event	Location	Date
Lived in	Pratt, KS, USA	1943
705 N. Champa

Date	Contributor	Update
23 April 2020 01:41:48	466thHistorian	Changes to aircraft associations
Sources
466th BG - Report on Mission No 144, RR Viaduct, Bielefeld, Germany, 26 Nov 1944 NARA Research by Brad Sullivan
Date	Contributor	Update
06 December 2015 19:56:28	466thHistorian	Changes to service number and aircraft associations
Sources
466th BG Historian
Date	Contributor	Update
01 January 2015 22:56:29	466thHistorian	Changes to middlename, highest rank, role, unit associations, place associations and mission associations
Sources
466th BG Historian
Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:13:34	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
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 352