James W Reid

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media-48717.png UPL 48717 S/SGT James W. "Billy" Reid
445th Bomb Group
700th Bomb Squadron
DOB: 30 Aug 1919 // KIA 24 Mar 1945

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Object Number - UPL 48717 - S/SGT James W. "Billy" Reid 445th Bomb Group 700th Bomb Squadron DOB: 30 Aug 1919 // KIA 24 Mar 1945

Killed in Action (KIA) on 24 March 1945 in B-24 #42-50620 // 52nd combat mission

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51681) of the 453rd Bomb Group flies in formation with a fellow Liberator of the 453rd and and a pathfinder Liberator of the 445th Bomb Group. Image via Alan Rowsell.

445th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-50620

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 700th Bomb Squadron

Places

Signal Squares on the airfield at Tibenham, B-24 Liberators of the 398th Bomb Group are visible in the background. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Tibenham Signal Squares.'

Tibenham

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Tivetshall

Events

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Born

Dedham, Massachusetts 30 August 1919

Enlisted

Boston, Massachusetts 6 May 1941

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Killed in Action (KIA)

Wesel, Germany 24 March 1945

Buried

27 July 1949 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2795094/james-w.-reid

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Updated enlistment location

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Updated from original sources plus National Archive enlistment record

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MACR 13545

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MACR 1345 // Boston Globe 25 Apr 1945; Boston Globe 26 Jan 1945; Boston Globe 21 July 1949 // DOB sourced from gravestone at Long Island National Cemetery // Nickname from me, a relative

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Birsic, SO#265 12 Oct 44, MACR 13545, 2AD Honor Roll / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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