John MacCallum
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Pyote Air Base, Texas - September 1943
Front Row (L-R)
1 John Daly, Pilot
2 Robert Koerber, Copilot
3 William Evans, Navigator
4 Joseph Jennings, Bombardier
Back Row (L-R) - Gunners
1 Omer "Lyle" Young
2 Frank Hearne
3 John MacCallum
4 Adriel "Wayne" Langendoerfer
5 Howard Polizzo
6 Harvey Tuber
This ten-man crew earned the Air Medal on their second mission -- Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, where they bombed a Messerschmidt airplane factory.
edited to correct proper spelling of Pyote and generated link to it in "places".
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. 11 x combat missions.
Failed to Return (FTR) Sorau Germany mission 11-Apr-44 'Tenny Belle' exploded in mid-air near Downham Market, England. Killed in Action (KIA)
Awards: AM, PH.
Connections
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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: O-694353
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- 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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 91st Bomb Group 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
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Sara Jane
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: The Lost Angel
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 482nd Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron 525th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 11 April 1944
- Date: 10 April 1944
- Date: 9 April 1944
- Date: 28 March 1944
- Date: 27 March 1944
Places
Official War Department document/Open Source.
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Cambridge American Military Cemetery
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Rattlesnake Bomber Base
- Site type: Military site
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Born |
East Hampton, NY 11937, USA | 31 December 1917 | |
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Other Training |
Pyote Army Airfield | 23 September 1943 - 8 December 1943 | B-17 Flying Fortress crew training |
|
Based |
Kimbolton | 20 February 1944 - 11 April 1944 | Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. |
|
Died |
Barroway Drove, Downham Market PE38 0AJ, UK | 11 April 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) Sorau Germany mission 11-Apr-44 'Tenny Belle' exploded in mid-air near Downham Market, England. Killed in Action (KIA) |
|
Buried |
Cambridge American Cemetery | 12 April 1944 | Cambridge American Cemetery Plot C Row 3 Grave 15 |
|
Other Training |
Snettisham | 19 February 1944 | Intensive gunnery training |
|
Other Training |
Alexandria Army Air Base | B-17 aircrew training | |
|
Enlisted |
New Haven County, CT | Entered service from New Haven County, CT. |
Revisions
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.
Combat Chronology; 379th Bombardment Group Anthology, pg 300 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
