Bernard Abel
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
27 missions
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Initially on B-24 42-95024, the “Gypsy Queen” piloted by Leo Baumann. After its crash, reassigned to other planes. On the 20th mission in January 1945, plane was hit by flak and landed in Sweden. Interned in Sweden until 8 May 1945. B-24 42-51523, the “Full House.”
Interned in Humlebacken (Korsnas)
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
27 missions
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
Assigned to 409BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Karlsruhe 5-Nov-44; Hit by flak on the return flight and broke up during an emergency landing near Church Farm close to their Hardwick home base. Killed in Action (KIA)
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Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 93rd Bomb Group
INT landed in Sweden on 17 Jan 45 in B-24 42-51523
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 93rd Bomb Group
INT landed in Sweden on 17 Jan 45 in B-24 42-51523.
Military | Major | Command Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
INT landed in Sweden on 17 Jan 45 in B-24 42-51523
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 93rd Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down near Tilburg on 9/18/44 in B-24 'Baggie Maggie' #42100416
Military | Captain | Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
INT landed in Sweden on 17 Jan 45 in B-24 42-51523
Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
Assigned to 329BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. 29 x missions. Mortally wounded on mission, only member of crew hit. Landed in Sweden in B-24 42-51523 17-Jan-45. Wounded in Action (WIA), subsequently died of wounds in Swedish hospital 20-Jan-45. MACR 11742.
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Military | Top Turret Gunner | 93rd Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail gunner | 93rd Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) 5 November 1944
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Group
93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 1-March-1942 at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. On 15-May-1942 the Group moved to Ft. Myers, Florida to continue advanced flight training and also to fly anti-submarine patrols over the Gulf of Mexico; they...
Squadron
Squadron
B-24 Liberator
Assigned to 329BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Hamburg. Major J Floore, Capt Harry Gruener, 1Lt J Harrington [WIA], Capt R White, 2Lt K Eisele Jr, 1Lt T Steph, 1Lt C Kline, T/Sgt P Golden, T/Sgt W Tipton, S/Sgt C Trone Jr, S/Sgt A Chipman...
B-24 Liberator
The aircraft shown is not 42-95024 but does show many of the crew members on board on the day that she crashed 5th November 1944
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17 January 1945
Military site : airfield
Planned as an RAF bomber airfield, Hardwick was used first by the 310th Bomb Group, equipped with B-25 Mitchells. In December 1943, the B-24 Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group moved in, and remained until the end of the war, flying over 330 missions....
Crash site
Other location
Other location
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Madison, Wisconsin | 25 May 1922 |
Enlisted | Milwaukee, WI, USA | 15 September 1944 |
Interned | Sweden | 17 January 1945 – 18 May 1945 |
Interned in Humlebacken (Korsnas) |
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Died | Madison, WI, USA | 25 May 1988 |
Buried | Madison, Wisconsin |
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29 August 2020 20:05:42 | GratefulSonOfFlierEisele | Changes to biography |
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updated to reflect that I had misspelled Baumann. Certain of this; he was Dad’s best friend on the crew and best man at Dad’s wedding. |
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18 June 2020 19:51:01 | GratefulSonOfFlierEisele | Changes to aircraft associations |
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Per Ted Eisele, son of Karl Eisele, Jr. |
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18 June 2020 19:20:33 | GratefulSonOfFlierEisele | Changes to biography |
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From the records of Ted Eisele, son of Karl Eisele, Jr. |
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01 May 2018 20:37:13 | GratefulSonOfFlierEisele | Changes to biography and events |
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Per Karl’s son, Ted Eisele |
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30 April 2018 17:35:54 | GratefulSonOfFlierEisele | Changes to awards |
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as per son, Ted Eisele |
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30 April 2018 17:19:24 | GratefulSonOfFlierEisele | Changes to person associations |
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as per son Ted Eisele |
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30 April 2018 02:15:17 | GratefulSonOfFlierEisele | Changes to events |
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AS PER son Ted Eisele |
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30 April 2018 01:42:40 | GratefulSonOfFlierEisele | Changes to person associations, unit associations and mission associations |
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as per son Ted Eisele |
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30 April 2018 01:34:55 | GratefulSonOfFlierEisele | Changes to awards |
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as per his son, Ted Eisele |
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30 April 2018 01:31:51 | GratefulSonOfFlierEisele | Changes to person associations and place associations |
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from his son, Ted Eisele |
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30 April 2018 01:29:51 | GratefulSonOfFlierEisele | Changes to service number |
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as per his son, Ted Eisele |
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18 January 2017 15:53:28 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to events and aircraft associations |
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Merged with duplicate entry to include details from: |
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27 September 2014 18:17:43 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / son, Tim Eisele MACR 11742 |