Lawrence I Smith

Military

Downed on 3rd mission, escaped via underground Crashed at Koblenz on 9/9/44 in B-24 Rough Riders #4129342 Evaded (EVD)



Purple Heart, 2 bronze stars

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'

458th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Events

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Born

Syosset LI, New York 23 February 1925

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self/ MACR 8610 & Page 282 of the book LIBERATORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010