Paul F Baum
Military ROLL OF HONOURAn Amateur Baseball player before entering military service in January 1943 with the Army Air Force at the Fort Hayes reception center in Columbus, Ohio.
On November 15, 1943, Baum was sent to England with the 66th Bomb Squadron of the 44th Bomb Group, Eighth Air Force. Flying missions over Europe from Shipdham Airfield in Norfolk, 2/Lt. Baum was bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator.
He suffered wounds on a mission to Oschersleben/Helmstedt in Germany on February 20, 1944, when flak injured his head and neck.
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 66th Bomb Squadron
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Sandusky, Ohio, USA | 27 September 1916 | |
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Died Killed in Action (KIA) |
Near Mont-de-Marsan, France | 27 March 1944 - 27 March 1944 | Killed in Action. On 27 Mar 1944, B-24J 42-109836, damaged by flak on a mission to Mont-de-Marsan airfield, attempted to reach Spain but was forced to ditch into the Channel. His body was recovered from the sea the next day. |
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Buried |
Revisions
Updated personal, biographical details and media by courtesy of Gary Bedingfield at http://www.baseballsgreatestsacrifice.com/biographies
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3590 / MACR 3590, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces,
href="http://8thairforce.com/44thbg/search/perlastname.asp">http://8thairforce.com/44thbg/search/perlastname.asp> / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database