Arlon Franklin Ziegler

Military
media-49964.jpeg UPL 49964 2nd Lt Arlon F Ziegler

USAAF photo

Object Number - UPL 49964 - 2nd Lt Arlon F Ziegler

Assigned to 839BS, 487BG, 8AF USAAF. 35 x combat missions. ETD





Awards: DFC, AM (OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 487th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 487th Bomb Group 839th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11010853
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner and Top Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 487th Bomb Group 839th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 14160025
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 487th Bomb Group 839th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 30413154
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Engineer and Tail Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 487th Bomb Group 839th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Engineer
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 487th Bomb Group 839th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-?
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Satchel Lass
  • Unit: 487th Bomb Group 839th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Dipsy Dee
  • Unit: 487th Bomb Group 839th Bomb Squadron
The nose art of a 487th Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Bashful Marion". The woman in the nose art is separately named ""Wrong Way" Kairis", and two names are inscribed under the cockpit window (covered by a sheet), a crewman called "Skipper" Schlemm and the crew chief, Technical Sergeant Joe Perisie. Handwritten caption on reverse: '487BG.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Bashful Marion
  • Unit: 487th Bomb Group 838th Bomb Squadron 839th Bomb Squadron

Places

Officers of the 487th Bomb Group outside the 838th Bomb Squadron operations room.
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Lavenham/Alpheton Airfield

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Effingham, IL 8 August 1921 Son of Erwin H. L. and Pauline B. [Burrow] Ziegler.

Enlisted

East St Louis, IL 18 September 1940 East St Louis, Illinois

Other

Ground Collision

Lavenham, UK 30 May 1944 Ground collision by other B-24 on ground at Lavenham. Crew OK RTD

Died

Long Beach, CA 23 June 2008

Buried

Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cypress, Orange County, CA 26 June 2008 Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cypress, Orange County, California

Based

Lavenham Assigned to 839BS, 487BG, 8AF USAAF.

Revisions

Date
ContributorIWMPM
Changes
Sources

487th BG http://www.487thbg.org/roster/487thXYZ.htm

'Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces. Volume 3. ETO Area - April 1944 - June 1944'. Bishop, Stan D & Hey, John A. Bishop Book Productions. 2009. ISBN 978-0-9547685-3-9

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Combat Sup / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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