418th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
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Matthew G Avon Jr
Military
Service
Units served with
Aircraft
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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, USA | |
| Prisoner of War (POW) | Germany | 6 March 1944 |
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2020 02:27:57 | jmoore43 | Changes to surname, middlename and suffix |
| Sources | ||
Corrected the name by moving "Jr" from the surname field to the suffix field and moving the last name from the middle name field to the surname field. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:19:50 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
MACR 3016 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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