Daniel Harris
Military | Colonel | Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29365, Prisoner of War (POW).
Retired from a 31 year career in the USAF with the rank of Colonel.
Lyndle Glen Newman
Military
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MACR 3840 42-29365 466th BG | 787th BS 08 Apr 1944
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29365, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Service
People
Units served with
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466th Bomb Group
Group
The 466th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Attlebridge, Norfolk, during the last year of the war in Europe. The Group flew 232 missions in the course of the year and celebrated the 100th one by inviting local people onto the base to mark the... -
787th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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41-29365
B-24 Liberator
Mission 291 350 B-24s are dispatched to aviation industry targets in Brunswick 1944-04-08 - MACR #: 3840 Notes:29365 (466th BG, 787th BS) lost Apr 8, 1944. MACR 3840
Associated Place
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Attlebridge
Military site : airfield
Attlebridge was constructed for RAF use and completed to that standard in 1942. However, with news that it was to be assigned to the American Air Force, the runways were extended and additional hardstandings and outbuildings constructed for the heavy...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Sayre, Oklahoma, USA | 22 June 1924 |
| Enlisted | Peoria, IL, USA | 9 December 1942 |
| Shot Down/Captured | in the vicinity of Vorsfelde, Wolfsburg, Germany | 8 April 1944 |
| Prisoner of War (POW) | Bad Sulza, Germany | 15 April 1944 – 8 May 1945 |
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Stalag 9a |
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| Died | Los Angeles, California | 24 August 1989 |
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 15 May 2020 21:19:03 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "-" to the A/C serial # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 28 November 2018 17:41:02 | 466thHistorian | Changes to events |
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https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60901&h=4696558... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 28 November 2018 17:39:42 | 466thHistorian | Changes to middlename and events |
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https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=5180&h=5339022&... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 14 January 2016 03:22:05 | 466thHistorian | Changes to service number, highest rank, awards, events, place associations and media associations |
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466th BG Historian |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:19:27 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3840 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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