Joseph P Kiely | American Air Museum in Britain

Lead crew on bombing mission to Wesseling, Germany, beside Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress 44-8038. 427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group. England, 11 October 1944.

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Assigned to 427BS, 303BG, 8AF USAAF. 29 x missions. End Tour Duty (ETD).

Awards: WWII Victory, EAME.

Service

8th Air Force

Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945. ...
303rd Bomb Group

Group
The 303rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated on 3-Feb-1942 at Pendleton Field, Oregon. They assembled at Gowen Field, Idaho on 11-February 1942 where it conducted flight training until 12-Jun-1942. The Group then moved to Alamogordo Field, New...
427th Bomb Squadron

Squadron

42-97311 'SILVER FOX', 'SHOO SHOO BABY'

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 17/2/44; Rapid City 5/3/44; Dow Fd 28/4/44; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 1/5/44; no ops, transferred 427BS/303BG [GN-O] Molesworth 13/5/44; 457BG Glatton 22/4/45; 351BG Polebrook 29/5/45; on mission to Brux 12/9/44 with ? . Tail...
42-97691

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 28/1/44; 1SAG Langley 11/3/44; Dow Fd 17/5/44; Assigned 803BS/305BG RCM Chelveston 19/5/44; transferred 384BG Grafton Underwood 1/8/44; transferred 427BS/303BG [GN-Y] Molesworth 4/8/44; sent to 803BS Alconbury for installation of...
43-37597 'Earthquake McGoon'

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 2/5/44; Hunter 16/5/44; Dow Fd 29/5/44; Assigned 427BS/303BG [GN-G] Molesworth 7/7/44; Missing in Action Dresden 17/4/45 with Tom Kahler, Theo Smith (2 Killed in Action); Lew Cotton, Dick Bowler, Dick Fogarty, Lloyd Lowery, Leslie...
44-8038

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 17/5/44; Dallas 14/6/44; Langley 3/7/44; Grenier 1/8/44; Assigned 322BS/91BG Bassingbourn 2/8/44; transferred 427BS/303BG [GN-Z] Molesworth 10/44; landing accident with Wallace Wildstein 27/3/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/5/46.
44-8238

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Dallas 19/7/44; Hunter 23/8/44; Grenier 2/9/44; Assigned 358BS/303BG [VK-Y] Molesworth 3/10/44; landing accident with Sam Taylor 5/5/45, Salvaged 6/5/45.

Molesworth

Military site : airfield
Molesworth was one of the early stations used by the Eighth Air Force in the UK, first occupied by the 15th Bomb Squadron’s Douglas Bostons in June 1942. Built in 1940 and extended and improved in 1942, Molesworth is most associated with the 303rd...

Event	Location	Date
Born	San Mateo County, CA, USA	1923
Son of John and Julia [McQuire] Keily.
Lived in	California, USA	1941
Enlisted	San Francisco, CA, USA	26 January 1943
Based	Molesworth	July 1944 – 6 February 1945
Assigned to 427BS, 303BG, 8AF USAAF.
End Tour Duty (ETD)	England, UK	6 February 1945
Ended Tour Duty (ETD).
Died	San Mateo, CA, USA
deceased

Date	Contributor	Update
07 March 2017 13:40:43	Al_Skiff	Changes to biography, awards, events, person associations, unit associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations
Sources
Key Image ID. http://www.303rdbg.com/lc286.html http://www.303rdbg.com/lc242.html http://www.303rdbg.com/lc255.html https://www.fold3.com/image/161248857/?terms=44-8038 https://www.fold3.com/image/136742437/?terms=Joseph%20P%20Kiely https://www.fold3.com/page/90775962_joseph_p%20kiely/details/ https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=114613432
Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:17:30	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://303rdbg.com/rost-kl.html#K