Autley Bernard Smith

Military
media-21541.jpeg UPL 21541 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

Object Number - UPL 21541 - Standing left to right : - Alfred M Sanders -Pilot - Louisiana, Daniel M O'Connell - Bombadier - Maryland, Thomas Zobelein - Navigator - New York ...

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.

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Units served with

A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 833rd Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Aerial photograph of Sudbury airfield looking south west, the bomb dump is to the upper right of the airfield, 29 February 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC188. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Acton

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Stone County, MS 13 December 1921 Son of Crawford R and Josephine [Dedeaux] Smith.

Other

Evaded EVD

Belgium 28 May 1944 Evaded. Lived with Belgian Underground from May till September 1944.

Other

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
Perkinston, Mississippi, USA

Based

Sudbury 28 May 1944 Assigned to 832BS, 486BG, 8AF USAAF.

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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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