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1st Lt. Benjamin Hoyt DeLoach, Pilot, Air Crew 422
Lt. Benjamin Hoyt DeLoach was born October 27, 1919, in Evans County, GA. to Willie F. and Elmine Callaway DeLoach. He flew 29 combat missions; 213 combat hours; in England from 10 June 1944-25 August 1944. After his tour of duty, he returned to the States, married his sweetheart, Betty Belmont, and became a flight instructor in Texas. Following the war, he enrolled in the University of Georgia using the GI Bill, where he received a degree in agriculture. He served as County Extension Agent for 40 years, 39 of which were in Charlton County, GA. He and Betty were the proud parents of five children. DeLoach passed away January 31, 1988, at the age of 68 and is buried at Canoochee Cemetery, Evans County, GA.
Group
The 457th Bomb Group began combat operations during the Big Week of 20-25 February when American bombers carried out concentrated raids against German aircraft bases, factories and assembly plants. The air crews' targets on that first mission were...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 21/4/44; Kearney 2/5/44; Grenier 21/5/44; Assigned 749BS/457BG [D] Glatton 23/5/44; Missing in Action Magdeburg 28/9/44 with Keylon Clarke, Navigator: Walt Sundling, Bombardier: Bob Smith, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Albt...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 21/1/44; Gr Island 29/1/44; Assigned 379BG Kimbolton 28/2/44; transferred 751BS/457BG [V] Glatton 2/3/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 2/11/44 with Graeme Bow, Navigator: George McGee, Bombardier: Dick Hibschman, Ball turret gunner:...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 1/2/44; Presque Is 21/2/44; Assigned 751BS/457BG [Y] Glatton 4/3/44; Flak, Zeitz 30/11/44 with John White, (9POW?); Moderwitz, Thuringia - Germany, Missing Air Crew Report 11150. HAMTRAMACK MAMA.
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 20/7/43; Gore 21/7/43; Gr Isle 14/8/43; Assigned 388BG Knettishall 4/9/43; transferred with HSC radar scanner installed 813BS/482BG [PC-U] Alconbury 5/9/43, then 751BS/457BG Glatton; Missing in Action Liepzig 7/7/44 with Jack Owens, Co...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 30/11/43; Wendover 8/12/43; Assigned 751BS/457BG [J] Glatton 29/1/44; battle damaged Nurnburg, on return crash landed Alconbury 19/2/45 with Richard Mack, Co-pilot: Don Schick, Navigator: John Nierengarden, Bombardier: Ralph Bell,...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 28/11/43; Wendover 11/12/43; Assigned 751BS/457BG [M] Glatton 7/4/44; after returning from mission 2/6/44 was parked and hit by 42-31620, Salvaged 22/6/44. QUEEN BEA.
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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 29/1/44; Kearney 6/2/44; Presque Is 25/2/44; Assigned 751BS/457BG [L] Glatton 8/3/44; (110m) Returned to the USA Bradley 9/6/44; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 14/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 29/1/44; Kearney 15/2/44; Presque Is 25/2/44; Assigned 751BS/457BG [Z] Glatton 8/3/44; Missing in Action Genshagen 6/8/44 with Vince Frost, Navigator: Bob Danaher, Bombardier: Earl Peronto, Ball turret gunner: Dan Rice, Waist gunner:...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 19/11/43; Wendover 11/12/43; Grenier 16/1/44; Assigned 751BS/457BG [N] Glatton 3/2/44; Missing in Action Gaggenau 10/9/44 with Harry Gay, Co-pilot: Earl Johnson, Navigator: Walter Sale*, Bombardier: Fabian Nordan*, Flight engineer/top...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 21/11/43; Salt Lake City 8/12/43; Wendover 11/12/43; Assigned 751BS/457BG [Q] Glatton 26/1/44; Missing in Action Gaggenau 10/9/44 with Homer Passmore, Co-pilot: Gerald Esser, Bombardier: Milton Long, Flight engineer/top turret gunner...
10 June 1944
12 June 1944
Willie Hussong got his arm caught in the door of the lower ball turret. Palmer and Rollinger pried him out with a gun barrel. Bombed an airfield. Hussong hospitalized.
14 June 1944
Mission #10. Bombed an airfield south of Brussels. Bob Martin flew in place of Hussong.
15 June 1944
17 June 1944
18 June 1944
20 June 1944
Bombed an airfield. We were hit by flak; a piece hit Palmer's armor plate and another hit a gas tank. Probriefed in the evening for a big secret mission.
25 June 1944
29 June 1944
4 July 1944
Military site : airfield
Glatton, which lay mostly in the parish of Conington, was built by the 809th Engineer Battalion (Aviation) of the U.S. Army in the last months of 1942. Unusually, the base's three runways surrounded Rose Court Farm, which remained a working farm...
Other location
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Died | Folkston, Georgia | 31 January 1988 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 22 January 2022 19:08:58 | retireddeloach | Changes to awards |
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pilot's personal copy of service record |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 12 June 2021 11:55:41 | retireddeloach | Changes to aircraft associations |
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Personal records |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 12 June 2021 11:38:08 | retireddeloach | Changes to media associations |
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Family collection |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 12 June 2021 11:34:09 | retireddeloach | Changes to middlename, service number, highest rank, role, biography, awards, events, place associations and mission associations |
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Personal and family collections. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:04:22 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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1993 457th BGA Roster / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |
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