418th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
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Matthew G Aven Jr
Military
Shot down by fighters and crashed E of Qukenbruck, GR on a mission to Klein Machow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944 in B-17F #42-30278 'Sly Fox'. Killed in Action (KIA).
POW
Service
Units served with
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42-30278 Sly Fox
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 8/5/43; Gore 9/5/43; Kearney 29/5/43; Dow Field 19/6/43; Assigned 550BS/385BG [SG-G] Gt Ashfield 20/6/43; transferred 418BS/100BG [LD-R] Thorpe Abbotts 9/43; Missing in Action Berlin 6/3/44 with Zeb Kendall, Co-pilot: Edwin Loughran,...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Tyler, Texas | |
| Died | Germany | 6 March 1944 |
| Buried | Texas, USA |
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 20 August 2015 15:23:31 | Lucyd | Changes to events and aircraft associations |
| Sources | ||
Combined two entries into a single entry. Record includes information from the following sources: |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:19:50 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3016, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces |
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