Julius Wishner
Military | Navigator | 94th Bomb Group
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Jack W Collins
Military
KIS Plane #42-97082 'Mission Mistress' crashed due to engine failure at Mount Farm England
Service
Units served with
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94th Bomb Group
Group
Activated 15 June 1942 at MacDill Field, Florida. Initial organization and training at Pendleton Field, Oregon on 29 June 1942. Primary flight training at Davis-Monthan Field in Arizona from 28 Aug. 42 to 31 Oct. 42; then at Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas... -
410th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Part of 94th Bomb Group.
Aircraft
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42-97082 Mission Mistress
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 25/1/44; Gr Island 20/2/44; Presque is 12/3/44; Assigned 333BS/94BG Rougham 16/3/44; 410BS; crashed on take off for Kaiserlauten 6/1/45 with Jack Collins, Navigator: Gordon Henry, tog-Clinton Hallman, Flight engineer/top turret...
Associated Place
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Bury St Edmunds
Military site : airfield
The airfield was purpose-built for American bomb groups and as such had a 2,000 yard main runway that lain in concrete with a tarred and wood-chipped surface. The scale of bases such as this meant that very often the technical, administrative and...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | New Jersey | |
| Died | 6 January 1945 |
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 22 February 2020 22:55:03 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "-" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" for clarity. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 21 May 2018 10:09:42 | Lucy May | Changes to place associations |
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Added Jack W Collins' name to the digital Roll of Honour in the American Air Museum at IWM Duxford, UK. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:13:55 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Lingering Contrails of the Big Square A and Combat Chronology Supplements KIS Plane # 4297082 crashed due to engine failure at Mount Farm England |
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