Adelbert DeHart Cross
Military
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UPL 37951
LTC Adelbert DeHart Cross
Command Pilot
389th BG
Participated in Operation Tidal Wave
Later served as base operations officer at Keesler AAF, Mississippi
Command Pilot
389th BG
Participated in Operation Tidal Wave
Later served as base operations officer at Keesler AAF, Mississippi
Took part in Operation Tidal Wave, the raid on Ploesti on 1 August 1943, flying B-24 Liberator 42-40733.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15045876 / 0-325990
- Highest Rank: Major General
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 355th Fighter Group 389th Bomb Group 2nd Scouting Force 567th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-23828
- Highest Rank: Brigadier General
- Role/Job: Bomber Pilot / Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 565th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-1699045
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot / Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 567th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Engineer/Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 567th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15018197
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Virgin for Short, But Not For Long
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron 567th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Berka, al Birkah
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Ridgway, Pennsylvania | 2 May 1917 | |
Died |
Lake Forest, California | 21 April 1981 | |
Longmeadow, MA |
Revisions
Contributor466thHistorian
Changes
ContributorDieterle
Changes
Sources
Philip Ardery, Bomber Pilot: A Memoir of World War II (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky: 1978) 99.
ContributorDieterle
Changes
Sources
Philip Ardery, Bomber Pilot: A Memoir of World War II (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky: 1978) passim.
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ploesti by Dugan & Stewart