Nelson Bentley Vaughan

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Assigned to 350BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF. 23 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Wilhelshaven, mid air collision with B-17 #42-31987 near Rustringen in B-17 #43-38457, A/C became locked together crashed Rustringen, Germany. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 11359.



Classified initially as Finding of Death (FOD), presumably his body was never found.



Awards: PH

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Units served with

Three airmen of the 100th Bomb Group, Lieutenant Kenneth Menzie, Lieutenant Donald Strout and Lieutenant Norman Scott, plan the route they will take during the next mission in their B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30380). Image stamped on reverse: 'Reviewed and passed U.S. Army 23 Aug 1943 Press Censor E.T.O. U.S.A.' [stamp]'. Passed for publication 23 August 1943 INTLD 16 General Section Press Censorship Bureau '[stamp], 'Associated Press' [stamp] and '280035.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reve

100th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

43-38457

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Nine Lives
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron

Missions

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.'

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  • Date: 31 December 1944

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Porland, OR 31 December 1923 Son of Bentley James and Clara E [Nelson] Vaughan.

Enlisted

Lincoln, NE, USA 4 March 1943 Lincoln, Nebraska

Died

Kleingärtnerverein Rüstringen e.V., Neuengrodener Weg 50, 26386 Wilhelmshaven, Germany 31 December 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Wilhelshaven, mid air collision with B-17 #42-31987 near Rustringen in B-17 #43-38457, A/C became locked together crashed Rustringen, Germany. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 11359.

Buried

Lincoln Memorial Park PortlandMultnomah CountyOR Memorialised Lincoln Memorial Park Portland Multnomah County Oregon, USA

Based

Thorpe Abbotts 31 December 1944 Assigned to 350BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 11359 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database