Daniel Harris
Military | Colonel | Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29365, Prisoner of War (POW).
Retired from a 31 year career in the USAF with the rank of Colonel.
John Charles Bushing
Military
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USAAF Flight Engineer Wings
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MACR 3840 42-29365 466th BG | 787th BS 08 Apr 1944
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29365, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Service
People
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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... -
787th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
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41-29365
B-24 Liberator
Mission 291 350 B-24s are dispatched to aviation industry targets in Brunswick 1944-04-08 - MACR #: 3840 Notes:29365 (466th BG, 787th BS) lost Apr 8, 1944. MACR 3840
Associated Place
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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...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Logansport, Indiana, USA | 27 October 1922 |
| Enlisted | Indianapolis, Indiana | 7 January 1943 |
| 466th BG Combat Tour | Attlebridge Airfield, UK | 22 March 1944 – 8 April 1944 |
| Prisoner of War (POW) | Zagan, Poland | 8 April 1944 |
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Stalag Luft IV |
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| Shot Down/Wounded | in the vicinity of Vorsfelde, Wolfsburg, Germany | 8 April 1944 |
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Seriously burned fighting fires in the bomb bay started by the ME 109's attack. He took 18 months to fully heal |
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| Died | Monticello, IN 47960, USA | 7 May 1991 |
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JOHN CHARLES BUSHING MONTICELLO — John Charles Bushing, 68, of 210 S. Beach St., died at 10:30 a.m Tuesday in White County Memorial Hospital. He had been ill five years. Born Oct. 27, 1922, in Logansport, he was the son of William and Elsie Williams Bushing. On Sept. 16, 1946, in Logansport, he was married to Mary L. Harpel, who survives. He had lived in Monticello since 1952, coming from Logansport. He was a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran, having served in World War II. He was a prisoner of war for one year when his plane was shot down in Germany. He escaped and was rescued by British troops. He had worked at the former RCA plant in Monticello from 1951 to 1965. He owned a public accounting and tax consulting firm in Monticello from 1965 to 1991. He attended Grace Community Baptist Church. He was a member of the Monticello Masonic Lodge and Murat Shrine Club in Indianapolis. Also surviving is one son, Terry A., of Monticello. |
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| Buried | Monticello, IN 47960, USA | 10 May 1991 |
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IOOF Riverview Cemetery |
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Revisions
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| 15 May 2020 21:22:08 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "-" to the A/C serial # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 28 November 2018 17:31:59 | 466thHistorian | Changes to events |
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https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=8939&h=3724477&... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 12 January 2016 22:34:56 | 466thHistorian | Changes to middlename, service number, highest rank, role, events, place associations and media associations |
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466th BG Historian http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bushing&GSfn=John&... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:15:45 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3840 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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