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1LT Benjamin F. Hathaway Bombardier Jammie Philpott Crew & Halcot Thomas Crew Receiving his DFC at Horham

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Halcott B. Thomas Crew 95th BG - 335th BS Standing Left to Right: Gene C. Grime (R/O), Billy C. Ferguson (FE), Millard E. McGowan, Jr. (TG), Fred W. Miller (WG) Kneeling Left to Right: Halcott B. Thomas (P), Benjamin F. Hathaway (B), Bily P. Decherniss (BTG), Donald B. Flygstad (N), Max Bunin (CP) This was largely the crew that Halcott Thomas finished his tour with, though his original crew had a sunstantially different composition. The crew in the photo had been the Jammie Philpott crew

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Jammie Philpott Crew 95th BG - 336th BS This crew became the Halcott B. Thomas Crew after about 15 missions. Standing Left to Right: Jammie M. Phipott (P), Benjamin F. Hathaway (B), Billy P. Decherniss (RN), Donald B. Flygstad (N) Kneeling Left to right: Frew W. Miller (WG), Billy C. Ferguson (FE), Gene C. Grime (R/O), Millard E. McGowan (TG)

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Service

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Jammie Philpott

Military | Captain | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Lieutenant General Jammie M. Philpott was vice commander in chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe, with headquarters at Lindsey Air Station, Wiesbaden, Germany. ...
Cary Savage

Military | Captain | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Halcott Thomas

Military | Captain | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group

Units served with

95th Bomb Group

Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August...
336th Bomb Squadron

Squadron

Aircraft

42-102450 'Paisano'

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 4/3/44; Kearney 22/3/44; Dow Fd 7/4/44; Assigned 96BG Snetterton 7/4/44; transferred 336BS/95BG Horham 8/4/44; with W. G. Helm force landed A-71 Clastres, France 29/12/44; 85m, Missing in Action Chemnitz 3/3/45 with Bob Duncan, Co...
42-97992 'Hap Hazard' 'Trouble Buggy'

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Dallas 26/4/44; Langley 24/6/44; Dow Fd 15/7/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-Q] Horham 16/7/44 HAP HAZARD; 336BS [OE-G]; 412BS [QW-Q]; with W. Hatheway, Navigator: Gene Petrocene (Killed in Action), obs-D.A. Pomeroy (Wounded in Action) and Xn...
43-38617 New York Express

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 24/8/44; Hunter 7/9/44; Dow Fd 18/9/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-Q] Horham 19/9/44; with W.N. Dunwoody force landed Raydon afb, Suffolk 10/1/45; 80m, Returned to the USA Bradley 24/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 28/6/45;...
44-8040

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 14/5/44; Dallas 14/6/44; Langley 6/7/44; Grenier 3/8/44; Assigned PFF 335BS/95BG [OE-N] Horham 5/8/44; 412BS [QW-N]; 36m, sal 8/6/45. 13TH JINX.
44-8144 Hell's Belle

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Dallas 27/6/44; Langley 27/7/44; Dow Fd 4/8/44; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-O] Horham 10/8/44; 336BS [ET-O], then 412BS [GW-O]; with W.V. Owen force landed Framlingham afb, Sfk 25/12/44; battle damaged Hamburg 30/3/45 with E.R. Parrish[wia];...
44-8210 Sweetheart of Seattle

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Dallas 11/7/44; Langley 8/8/44; Dow Fd 12/9/44; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-Z] Rougham 14/9/44; transferred 335BS/95BG [OE-J] Horham 11/44; with L.W. Jensen, Radio Operator: Paul Rupard, Waist gunner: - Olson [2wia] 24/2/45; 53m, RetUS,...
44-8272

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Dallas 27/7/44; Lincoln 17/8/44; Grenier 3/9/44; Assigned 1377 AAF Base Unit detailed UK, via Goose Bay, Lab.; on 3/9/44 with Joe Arwood, Co-pilot: Walt Johnson, Navigator: Bill Fowler, Bombardier: Clarry Counsell, Flight engineer/top turret...
44-8364

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Dallas 25/8/44; Langley 4/9/44; Grenier 10/10/44; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-W] Horham 12/10/44; 21m, Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/5/46.
44-8709 Joltin' Joe

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 30/11/44; Hunter 20/12/44; Grenier 6/1/45; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-J] Thorpe Abbotts 8/1/45; transferred as PFF 336BS/95BG [ET-F] Horham 23/1/45; 13m, Returned to the USA Morrison 20/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold...

Missions

674

12 October 1944
Black Week
685

22 October 1944
688

25 October 1944
691

28 October 1944
725

26 November 1944
772

31 December 1944
814

1 February 1945
824

9 February 1945
832

15 February 1945
849

26 February 1945
Narrative - Official Air Force Mission Description ...

Associated Place

Horham

Military site : airfield
Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group....

Events

Event	Location	Date
Born	Bridgewater, MA	28 January 1921
Lived in	Bridgewater, MA	February 1942
Pine Street
95th BG Combat Tour	Horham Airfield, UK	12 October 1944 – 11 April 1945
24 Combat Missions 13 - Philpott 9 - H. Thomas 2. C. Savage
Died	Denton, TX	17 November 2005

Date	Contributor	Update
20 July 2020 15:14:48	466thHistorian	Changes to awards
Sources
Mission and photo evidence
Date	Contributor	Update
20 July 2020 00:39:01	466thHistorian	Changes to middlename, service number, highest rank, events, person associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations
Sources
https://95thbg.mmsw.eu/person/2821 https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2238/images/44016_12_00... https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=61843&h=6595507...
Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:04:23	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://95thbg.org/95th_db_pages/left_formation_code/gethonoroll.php

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