Lester J Nichoson

Military
media-36903.jpeg UPL 36903 Technical Sergeant Lester J. Nichoson, Radio Operator, 466th Bomb Group, 787th Bomb Squadron.

Courtesy of Ronald Nichoson, son of Lester, via Jerry Everson

Object Number - UPL 36903 - Technical Sergeant Lester J. Nichoson, Radio Operator, 466th Bomb Group, 787th Bomb Squadron.

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Units served with

People

Missions

644

  • Date: 21 September 1944
B-24 Liberators of the 392nd Bomb Group fly low over countryside. First handwritten caption on reverse: 'Holland or Rhine re supply 392 BG.' Second handwritten caption on reverse: '18/9/44. 392BG B/24 dropping parachute supplies. Low level in Holland 9/17/44.'

639

  • Date: 18 September 1944
French civillians inspect a crashed B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-32086) nicknamed "You Never Know" of the 457th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '10/9/44 France.'

619

  • Date: 10 September 1944

611

  • Date: 8 September 1944

590

  • Date: 30 August 1944

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Toledo, Ohio 30 May 1924

Other

466th BG Combat Tour

Attlebridge Airfield, UK 11 July 1944 - 1 November 1944 Completed a 35 mission combat tour

Died

Toledo, Ohio 25 May 1976

Buried

Pemberville, Ohio 28 May 1976 Fish Cemetery Pemberville, Wood Co., Ohio USA

Revisions

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Contributor466thHistorian
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https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60525&h=121977…
"Attlebridge Arsenal" - Brassfield & Wassom
page 42-43

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Contributorgeneral ira snapsorter
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Missions added courtesy of Ronald Nichoson, son of Lester, via Jerry Everson

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Contributor466thHistorian
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466th BG Historian

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ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit roster in the book ATTLEBRIDGE DIARY by Wassom & Brassfield, page 349

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