Bernard Downs
Military | Technical Sergeant | Engineer and Top Turret Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Assigned Jan 1945
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John F Bookout Jr
Military
Assigned Jan 1945
Service
People
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Jean Elissalde
Military | Major | Co-Pilot | 96th Bomb Group
Assigned Jan 1945 -
Millard Ickes
Military | Captain | Navigator | 96th Bomb Group
23 missions January - April 1945 -
Llywellyn Jones
Military | Corporal | 96th Bomb Group
Assigned Jan 1945 -
Chester Stephenson
Military | Corporal | 96th Bomb Group
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James Suter
Military | Corporal | 96th Bomb Group
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George Taggs
Military | Corporal | 96th Bomb Group
Assigned Jan 1945
Units served with
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96th Bomb Group
Group
The 96th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses to targets across occupied Europe from May 1943 to April 1945. ... -
413th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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43-37623
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 5/5/44; Hunter 18/5/44; Dow Fd 29/5/44; Assigned 413BS/96BG [MZ-B] Snetterton 1/6/44; en route Schweinfurt 19/7/44 slight coll with 42-30851, with Ralph Colflesh, Co-pilot: Elmer Wenzel, Navigator: Tom Kialy, Bombardier: John...
Missions
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811
29 January 1945
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821
6 February 1945
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8AF 830
14 February 1945
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832
15 February 1945
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833
16 February 1945
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835
19 February 1945
1,100 Heavies Hit Nazi Rails ... -
836
20 February 1945
"Continuing their offensive against the Nazi communications, 900 Fortresses of the 8th Air Force, attacking in two giant waves, thundered over Nuremberg yesterday to shower the cities huge railway yards and locomotive repair shops with more than 11,000... -
841
22 February 1945
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849
26 February 1945
Narrative - Official Air Force Mission Description ... -
854
28 February 1945
Associated Place
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Snetterton Heath
Military site : airfield
Intended to be an RAF bomber base, construction of Snetterton Heath started in Autumn 1942 but continued until mid-1943, because it was extended after allocation as an Eighth Air Force bomber base. It had eventually three concrete runways, 50...
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 16 March 2017 19:42:06 | kspurdy | Changes to nickname, service number, highest rank, awards, person associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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Kimberly Purdy |
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| 27 September 2014 18:15:59 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum Membership List, July 2000; Snetterton Falcons, pg 227 |
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