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“Quivering Box” - # 42-100315 (photo via Navigator Glenn W. Hoffman’s family)
John Clay was Tail Gunner on B-24 #42-100315 "Quivering Box" of 446th Bomb Group / 705th Bomb Squadron on the 21 July 1944 mission to Munich, Germany. Wounded in the head, he died the same day in hospital and was buried in a military cemetery in Berg-op-Zoon, The Netherlands. His name is on the memorial to War Dead in the City Park, in Mc Kenzie, Carroll County, Tennessee.
Killed in Action (KIA) Shot down by flak and crashed at Tholen in B-24 Quivering Box #42100315
Military | Captain | Bombardier | 446th Bomb Group
Captain Calvin Ballard served as Nose Turret Gunner on board B-24 #42-100315 "Quivering Box" of 446th Bomb Group / 705th Bomb Squadron on the 21 July 1944 mission to Munich, Germany. The Liberator was hit by Flak on return from the mission and Calvin...
Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 446th Bomb Group
John E. Hand Jr was a Co-Pilot in the 446th Bomb Group / 705th Bomb Squadron at Bungay. A member of the Charles W. Haney crew, he replaced Pilot Eric H. Sherman's regular co-pilot on the 21 July 1944 mission to Munich, Germany. John Hand was on B-24 ...
Military | Lieutenant | B-24 Navigator | 446th Bomb Group
Glenn Hoffman graduated from high school in 1939 after 4 years at Highland Park High School, Highland Park, Illinois. He worked for awhile as a stableman in a riding stable. He was, then, employed at the Chicago Union Station in the Chicago office of...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 446th Bomb Group
S/Sgt Euylse Jackson was Right Waist gunner on B-24 Quivering Box #42-100315 of 446th BG / 705th BS, shot down by Flak on the 21 July 1944 mission to Munich, Germany. Wounded, Jackson went down with the plane and crashed near Tholen in The Netherlands....
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 446th Bomb Group
Bill Kopczynski trained as a gunner and was sent overseas. He served in the 446th Bomb Group / 705th Bomb Squadron at Bungay, England. He was Ball Turret Gunner on B-24 “Quivering Box” # 42-100315 when it was hit by Flak on the 21 July 1944 mission to...
Military | Technical Sergeant | Engineer / Top Turret Gunner | 446th Bomb Group
William Lutes enlisted in August 1942 and trained as an enginer/gunner. He was sent overseas and served in the 446th Bomb Group / 705th Bomb Squadron at Bungay, England. He was Engineer / Top Turret Gunner on B-24 “Quivering Box” # 42-100315 when it...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 446th Bomb Group
William McDonald trained as a gunner and was sent overseas. He was a Ball Turret Gunner in the 446th Bomb Group / 705th Bomb Squadron at Bungay. He was on B-24 “Quivering Box” 42-100315 when it was hit by Flak on the 21 July 1944 mission to Munich,...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 446th Bomb Group
S/Sgt Leiding Olson trained as a gunner and was sent overseas. Assigned to the 446th Bomb Group / 705th Bomb Squadron at Bungay, England. He was Left Waist Gunner on B-24 “Quivering Box” # 42-100315 when it was hit by Flak on the 21 July 1944 mission...
Military | Lieutenant | Bombardier | 446th Bomb Group
Born and raised on the family farm at "Double Bridges" in Osceola, Arkansas, Nelson Segraves enlisted in the Air Corps two months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He followed Bombardier training and was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant. After training at...
Military | Captain | Pilot; Squadron Operations Officer | 446th Bomb Group
(Adapted from the obituary in The San Diego Union Tribune, 23 September 2008)
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Group
The 446th Bomb Group, who came to be known as "the Bungay Buckaroos" after the name of their Suffolk base, flew B-24 Liberators on strategic, support and interdictory missions over Europe. The Group led the Eighth Air Force and 2nd Bomb Division on the...
Squadron
B-24 Liberator
B-24J "Quivering Box of 446th Bomb Group / 705th Bomb Squadron was hit by Flak on return from the 21 July 1944 mission to Munich, Germany. One engine caught fire imediately and another stopped. According to a statement in the Missing Air Crew Report ...
21 July 1944
Military site : airfield
From late November 1943, the three bases of Bungay, Seething and Hardwick were the stations of the 20th Combat Wing of the Eighth Air Force. The base had previously housed individual squadrons of the 310th Bomb Group (Twelfth Air Force) and of the 93rd...
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| Born | Tennessee, United States | 1919 |
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the son of Hadden H. and Kathleen L. Clay |
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| Lived in | Trezevant, Tennessee, United States | 1941 |
| Enlisted | Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, United States | 10 January 1942 |
| Wounded In Action | near Tholen, The Netherlands | 21 July 1944 |
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on board B-24 #42-100315 "Quivering Box" of 446th Bomb Group / 705th Bomb Squadron on the 21 July 1944 mission to Munich, Germany. The Liberator was hit by Flak on return from the mission and John Clay was wounded in the head. Landing in parachute, he was immediately captured. |
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| Died of Wounds (DOW) | near Berg-op-Zoon, The Netherlands | 21 July 1944 |
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in a German Naval hospital where he was next to Radio Operator William Kopczynski |
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| Buried | Berg-op-Zoom, The Netherlands | 22 July 1944 |
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in a military cemetery in Berg-op-Zoon |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 12 May 2016 15:54:47 | ED-BB | Changes to service number, biography, events, person associations, place associations, mission associations and media associations |
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MACR 7250 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:16:41 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7250 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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