John Ryan
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
air medal
Military
Completed 32 missions in 77 days in 1944, including D-Day. Berlin the worst. No crew injuries in combat. Bomb. Dan Adams, Nav. Carl Foster and I are still alive at 2/16/04.
ETO Ribbon with 2 bronze stars, Air Medal with 3/Oak Leaf Cluster, DFC
Group
The 398th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire on strategic bombing raids over Germany. The Group switched focus in the days before D-Day, when they targeted enemy positions on the Cherbourg peninsula. When the Allies...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 11/2/44; Rapid City 5/3/44; Dow Fd 28/4/44; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 6/5/44; no ops, transferred 510BS/351BG [TU-K] Polebrook 24/5/44; 103m Returned to the USA Bradley 11/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 21/10/45;...
Military site : airfield
Built during 1942-43, Nuthampstead was the nearest Eighth Air Force heavy bomber base to London. It had three concrete runways, 50 loop hardstandings and two dispersed T2 hangars. It was first occupied from September 1943 to April 1944 by the 55th...
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Parsons, Kansas | 20 July 1921 |
Lived in | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 1930 |
Died | California, USA | 20 December 2009 |
Buried | Riverside, CA, USA | 23 December 2009 |
Riverside National Cemetery |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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07 August 2016 01:36:45 | 466thHistorian | Changes to nickname, events, person associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Test&GSfn=lee&GSby... |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:18:23 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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398th History, Vol 1 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |