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Autley Bernard Smith

Military

  • Standing left to right : - Alfred M Sanders -Pilot - Louisiana, Daniel M O'Connell - Bombadier - Maryland, Thomas Zobelein - Navigator - New York Fred A Morley - Co-Pilot - Illinois, Kneeling : - James R Sizemore - Turret Gunner - West Virginia, Autley B Smith - Nose Gunner - Mississippi, William Kozulak - Upper Gunner - New York, Louie Lujan - Waist Gunner - California, John H Lawrence - Radio Operator - Alabama, Robert C Swaffield - Tail Gunner - Ohio

    Standing left to right : - Alfred M Sanders -Pilot - Louisiana, Daniel M O'Connell - Bombadier - Maryland, Thomas Zobelein - Navigator - New York Fred A Morley - Co-Pilot - Illinois, Kneeling : - James R Sizemore - Turret Gunner - West Virginia, Autley B Smith - Nose Gunner - Mississippi, William Kozulak - Upper Gunner - New York, Louie Lujan - Waist Gunner - California, John H Lawrence - Radio Operator - Alabama, Robert C Swaffield - Tail Gunner - Ohio

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Assigned to 832BS, 486BG, 8AF USAAF. Fellow Louisiana State University Alumni, influential in the naming of Lt Alfred Sanders B-24. Only flew 5 missions. Shot down 28-May-44 in B-24 42-52764 'Mike, Spirit of LSU. ' Evaded. Lived with Belgian Underground from May till September 1944.

Awards: AM, WWII Victory.

Service

Units served with

  • 486th Bomb Group

    486th Bomb Group

    Group
    The 486th Bomb Group flew both B-24s and B-17s, swapping from the former aircraft to the latter in late July 1944 after 49 missions. In total the Group flew 292 missions during the war and remarkably the 834th Bomb Squadron lost no aircraft or...

  • 832nd Bomb Squadron

    832nd Bomb Squadron

    Squadron

Aircraft

  • 42-52764

    B-24 Liberator
    Assigned to 833rd Bomb Squadron, 486th Bomb Group, 8th AF USAAF. ...

Missions

  • 376

    28 May 1944

Associated Place

  • Sudbury

    Military site : airfield
    Situated between the villages of Great Waldingfield and Acton, the airfield was used by the 486th Bomb Group from March 1944 to August 1945. Facilities for administrative offices for the Combat Wing were also made available here and along with barrack...

  • Houssiere Wood

    Crash site

Events

Event Location Date
Born Stone County, MS 13 December 1921

Son of Crawford R and Josephine [Dedeaux] Smith.
Lived in Perkinston, Mississippi, USA 1940
Based Sudbury 1944 – 28 May 1944

Assigned to 832BS, 486BG, 8AF USAAF.
Evaded EVD Belgium 28 May 1944 – September 1944

Evaded. Lived with Belgian Underground from May till September 1944.
Shot down / baled out 06567 Bad Frankenhausen, Germany 28 May 1944

Shot down 28-May-44 in B-24 42-52764 'Mike, Spirit of LSU. '
Died West Monroe, Ouachita Parish, LA 8 February 2018
Buried Hasley Cemetery West Monroe, Ouachita Parish, LA 11 February 2018

Hasley Cemetery
West Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Nationality
American
Nickname
'Smitty' 'A B'
Service numbers
T-14109622
Highest rank
Sergeant
Role/job
Nose Gunner
Awards
  • Air Medal
  • European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
  • World War II Victory Medal

Revisions

Date Contributor Update
24 December 2021 15:32:16 Al_Skiff Changes to middlename, nickname, biography and events
Sources

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187230828/autley-bernard-smith
Date Contributor Update
01 November 2021 21:49:22 Fbf003 Changes to nickname and role
Sources

Grandson
Date Contributor Update
29 April 2016 06:23:23 Al_Skiff Changes to service number, role, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations
Sources

http://www.lsuart.net/newpage1.htm
Date Contributor Update
27 September 2014 18:04:16 AAM AAM ingest
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5390 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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