Phillip W Engebretson

Military
media-48729.png UPL 48729 1ST LT Phillip W. Engebretson
445th Bomb Group
700th Bomb Squadron
DOB: 24 Apr 1923 // KIA 24 Mar 1945

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Object Number - UPL 48729 - 1ST LT Phillip W. Engebretson 445th Bomb Group 700th Bomb Squadron DOB: 24 Apr 1923 // KIA 24 Mar 1945

Killed in Action (KIA) on 24 March 1945 in B-24 #42-50620



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Units served with

A pathfinder B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51681) of the 453rd Bomb Group flies in formation with a fellow Liberator of the 453rd and and a pathfinder Liberator of the 445th Bomb Group. Image via Alan Rowsell.

445th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-50620

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 700th Bomb Squadron

Places

Signal Squares on the airfield at Tibenham, B-24 Liberators of the 398th Bomb Group are visible in the background. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Tibenham Signal Squares.'

Tibenham

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Tivetshall

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Chisholm, Minnesota 24 April 1923

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

Germany 24 March 1945

Buried

Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Remains discovered at crash site by German civilian in October, 1952. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46391754/phillip-william-engebretson

Revisions

Date
ContributorRRC
Changes
Sources

MACR 13545 // Reno-Gazette-Journal (Reno, NV), 3 Mar 1954

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Birsic, 2AD Roll of Honor/ MACR 13545 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 13545 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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