John Gross
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
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Max Bunin
Military
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F/O Max Bunin Co-Pilot originally with the Jammie Philpott Crew and flew 14 missions with the Gross Crew 95BG - 336BS
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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
Service
People
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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
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Halcott Thomas
Military | Captain | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Units served with
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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
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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... -
42-97961
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 16/4/44; 1SAG Langley 5/6/44; Grenier 28/6/44; Assigned as (PFF) 336BS/95BG [ET-K] Horham 29/6/44; 31m, Missing in Action Mannheim, Ger. 21/1/45 with C. L. Savage; lost to severe weather conditions, crash landed Nancy A/fd, Fr; 9RTD;... -
43-38333 Heavy Date
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 22/7/44; Kearney 31/7/44; Grenier 9/8/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-H] Horham 12/8/44; with C.E. Willis force landed A-82 Rouvres, Fr 20/2/45; 73m, crash landed base with ?, non op 6/5/45; ditched North Sea with Roger Sundin 26/5/45.... -
43-38584
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 22/8/44; Lincoln 1/9/44; Grenier 18/9/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-H] Horham 25/9/44; with T.J. Tower force landed A-74 Cambrai/Niergneis, France 5/1/45; with C. Earley both with gs Ellingworth & Theo Hempen (wia) 25/2/45; landing... -
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;... -
44-8144 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,... -
44-8754
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 12/12/44; Hunter 3/1/45; Grenier 3/2/45; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-Z/A] Thorpe Abbotts 4/2/45; transferred 334BS/95BG [BG-Z] Horham 5/2/44; battle damaged Holzwickede, Ger 23/3/45 with Cary Savage; mid air coll with 44-8604, but...
Missions
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674
12 October 1944
Black Week -
685
22 October 1944
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688
25 October 1944
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691
28 October 1944
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745
10 December 1944
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764
27 December 1944
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766
28 December 1944
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770
30 December 1944
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772
31 December 1944
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789
10 January 1945
Associated Place
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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 |
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| Born | Detroit, MI | 10 September 1919 |
| Lived in | Detroit, MI | October 1940 |
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3438 Edison |
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| 95th BG Combat Tour | 12 October 1944 – 21 March 1945 | |
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| Died | Beaver Island, MI | 21 July 2012 |
| Buried | Northbrook, IL | 24 July 2012 |
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Sunset Memorial Lawns |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 19 July 2020 02:03:04 | 466thHistorian | Changes to events, person associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2238&h=26767438... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:19:55 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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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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