Morton Abrams

Military

35 combat missions over Europe as Pilot of B-17 'Lucky 13. ' Required to make forced landing at an advanced fighter base near Antwerp, Belgium with 2 engines out on January 18, 1945. Three missions to Berlin.



DFC/ AM w/ 2 Oak Leaf Cluster

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776

  • Date: 2 January 1945
A B-17 Flying Fortress (EP-E, serial number 42-31767) nicknamed "Our Gal Sal" of the 100th Bomb Group at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group. Written on slide casing: 'Our Gal Sal EP-E, 231767 at Mount Farm.'

772

  • Date: 31 December 1944

764

  • Date: 27 December 1944

750

  • Date: 15 December 1944

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Born

21 June 1923

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self