Thomas Czapko
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
One of the original cadre of pilots for the 466th BG
Led his crew to a successful completion of a 30 mission tour.
Military
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
One of the original cadre of pilots for the 466th BG
Led his crew to a successful completion of a 30 mission tour.
Group
The 466th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Attlebridge, Norfolk, during the last year of the war in Europe. The Group flew 232 missions in the course of the year and celebrated the 100th one by inviting local people onto the base to mark the...
Squadron
Military site : airfield
Attlebridge was constructed for RAF use and completed to that standard in 1942. However, with news that it was to be assigned to the American Air Force, the runways were extended and additional hardstandings and outbuildings constructed for the heavy...
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Newcastle, NE 68757, USA | 2 April 1921 |
Lived in | Sioux City, IA, USA | 1942 |
430 Higbee Street |
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Based | Attlebridge | 22 March 1944 – 8 July 1944 |
Died | Inman, KS 67546, USA | 3 February 2008 |
Kenneth "Kenny" Addison, 86, died Feb. 3, 2008, at Pleasant View Home, Inman. He was born April 2, 1921, in Newcastle, Neb, the son of Dean and Frances Smith Addison. He was a graduate of the Souix City Iowa High School and attended Business College in Souix City. A Hutchinson resident since 1957, he owned and operated Al-Char Bowling Lanes in Hutchinson, and Riverside Bowling Lanes in South Hutchinson. He was retired from Cessna, manager of the shipping and receiving dept. He belonged to the American Legion Lysle Rishel Post No. 68, Loyal Order of the Moose No. 982. |
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Buried | Hutchinson, KS, USA | 6 February 2008 |
Fairlawn Burial Park |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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30 October 2019 00:53:34 | 466thHistorian | Changes to events |
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466th BG Historian |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
08 October 2019 00:14:36 | Marcia466BG | Changes to service number |
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US Census (NARA); BIRLS File (Ancestry); Iowa WWII Pension Application; Find-A-Grave Memorials; WW II Draft Registration Cards (Ancestry) |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
08 October 2019 00:08:34 | Marcia466BG | Changes to middlename, service number and events |
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US Federal Census Records (NARA); Iowa WWII Pension Application (Ancestry): BIRLS File (Ancestry); WWII Draft Registration (NARA); |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
12 September 2016 20:22:19 | 466thHistorian | Changes to events |
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Addison&GSfn=Kenne... |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
23 December 2014 21:49:20 | 466thHistorian | Changes to highest rank, role, events, person associations, unit associations and place associations |
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466th BG Historian |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:17:56 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit roster in the book 'Attlebridge Arsenal' by Wassom & Brassford |