Chambers Adams
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 398th Bomb Group
Flew 32 missions in 77 days
Distinguished Flying Cross (July 1944)
Military
air medal
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 398th Bomb Group
Flew 32 missions in 77 days
Distinguished Flying Cross (July 1944)
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Flight Engineer; Top Turret Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
air medal
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Waist Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Good Conduct Ribbon, EAME Ribbon with two (2) Bronze Stars, American Defense Service Ribbon, Air Medal with three (3) Oak Leaf Clusters, Distinguished Flying Cross.
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Tail Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
air medal
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Tail Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Distinguished Flying Cross
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Radio Operator-Mechanic-Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
32 missions
AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster/ DFC
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
Completed 32 missions in 77 days in 1944, including D-Day. Berlin the worst. No crew injuries in combat. Bomb. Dan Adams, Nav. Carl Foster and I are still alive at 2/16/04.
ETO Ribbon with 2 bronze stars, Air Medal with 3/Oak Leaf Cluster, DFC
Group
The 398th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire on strategic bombing raids over Germany. The Group switched focus in the days before D-Day, when they targeted enemy positions on the Cherbourg peninsula. When the Allies...
Squadron
Date | Contributor | Update |
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27 September 2014 18:16:33 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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398th History, Vol 1 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |