Leroy E Dunster

Military
media-29868.jpeg UPL 29868 Crew of "Tenovus" at Union Station, Boise, Idaho, 1943:
standing, left to right - pilot 1st LT Lloyd Sharrard, Navigator 2nd LT James Kidder, co-pilot 2nd LT Charles Wolfe, Bombardier 2nd LT Donald Daniel, and tail turret S/Sgt George F. Johnson, Jr.;
kneeling, left to right - ball turret S/Sgt Robert M. Buxton, Radio Operator T/Sgt LeRoy E. Dunster, right waist S/Sgt Samuel Parris, Flight Engineer/Top Turret T/Sgt John L. Heck, and unknown (he was dropped from the crew and replaced by left waist S/Sgt Anthony Yacoboni, before going overseas.)

Pamela Johnson Dvorsky, daughter of S/Sgt George F. Johnson, Jr.

Object Number - UPL 29868 - Crew of "Tenovus" at Union Station, Boise, Idaho, 1943: standing, left to right - pilot 1st LT Lloyd Sharrard, Navigator 2nd LT James Kidder,...

Shot down by 20mm cannon fire from fighers and crashed near Fulda, GR on the return from a mission to Gotha, GR on 24 Feb 1944 in B-24J #42-100312. Prisoner of War (POW).



POW

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51681) of the 453rd Bomb Group flies in formation with a fellow Liberator of the 453rd and and a pathfinder Liberator of the 445th Bomb Group. Image via Alan Rowsell.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 701st Bomb Squadron 703rd Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Nashua, Montana, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany 24 February 1944

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2560 / MACR 2560, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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