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Lloyd G Stovall

Military

  • John P. Ryan Crew 398th Bomb Group - 602nd Bomb Squadron B-17G-45-BO #42-97252 - Served with both the 398th BG & 351st BG Standing Left to Right: John P. Ryan (P), Roy Test, Jr. (CP), Carl F. Foster (N), Daniel Adams (B) Kneeling Left to Right: Lloyd G. Stovall (R/O), John J. Cowley (FE), Joseph Horvath (G), Ray Keene (TG), Sam Devan (G) Photo taken in Rapid City, SD - April 1944

    John P. Ryan Crew 398th Bomb Group - 602nd Bomb Squadron B-17G-45-BO #42-97252 - Served with both the 398th BG & 351st BG Standing Left to Right: John P. Ryan (P), Roy Test, Jr. (CP), Carl F. Foster (N), Daniel Adams (B) Kneeling Left to Right: Lloyd G. Stovall (R/O), John J. Cowley (FE), Joseph Horvath (G), Ray Keene (TG), Sam Devan (G) Photo taken in Rapid City, SD - April 1944

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32 missions

AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster/ DFC

Service

People

  • John Ryan

    Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
    air medal

Units served with

  • 398th Bomb Group

    398th Bomb Group

    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...

  • 602nd Bomb Squadron

    602nd Bomb Squadron

    Squadron

Aircraft

  • 42-97252 Devil's Mistress

    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;...

Associated Place

  • Nuthampstead

    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...

Events

Event Location Date
Born Hall County, Georgia 5 May 1921
Lived in Guilford County, NC, USA 1943
Enlisted Camp Croft, South Carolina 29302, USA 18 January 1943
Died 1 January 2002
Nationality
American
Nickname
Not yet known
Service numbers
34601680
Highest rank
Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
Role/job
Radio Operator-Mechanic-Gunner
Awards
Not yet known

Revisions

Date Contributor Update
07 August 2016 01:42:15 466thHistorian Changes to highest rank, events, person associations, place associations and aircraft associations
Sources

http://www.ww2enlistment.org/index.php?page=directory&rec=4856474
Date Contributor Update
27 September 2014 18:19:00 AAM AAM ingest
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self

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