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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707

  • Date: 9 November 1944

693

  • Date: 30 October 1944

691

  • Date: 28 October 1944
The flak damaged nose of a B-17 Flying Fortress of the 398th Bomb Group. Printed caption on reverse: '54600 AC- England- 1st lt Lawrence M De Lancey, Corvallis, Oregon, landed this B-17 safely after its nose was literally shot away by flak over Cologne, Germany. Please Credit: Official US Air Force Photo.' Printed caption on image: 'This B-17 landed safely after losing its nose to flak. US AAF Photo.' Handwritten caption on reverse: '43-38172 of 398th BG.'

678

  • Date: 15 October 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