349th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
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Killed in AC#42-38053 'Cap'n Crow' in a form up accident over the base. on 7 May 1944. Target was Berlin. The plane had flares stored in the top turret and for some reason they exploded and the pilot ordered the crew to bail out The pilot Wright and Raper were possibly overcome by fumes and passed out. The rest of the crew bailed out, in all 5 of the crew were killed.
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 26/11/43; Wendover 20/12/43; Assigned 457BG Glatton 10/2/44; transferred 349BS/100BG [XR-G] Thorpe Abbotts 21/1/44; soon after t/off to Berlin 7/5/44 with Ralph Wright, Co-pilot: Jack Raper, Navigator: Rich Curran, Bombardier: Carl...
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Born | North Carolina | 7 December 1913 |
findagrave.com says he was born in Virginia. |
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Memorialized | Crewe, VA USA | |
Crewe Cemetery |
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Plot F Row 1 Grave 38 |
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08 May 2015 16:52:11 | usxpat | Changes to events and place associations |
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08 May 2015 16:23:05 | usxpat | Changes to place associations and media associations |
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https://100thbg.com |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
15 March 2015 12:48:56 | usxpat | Changes to middlename, service number, awards, events, place associations and media associations |
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findagrave.com |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:21:56 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Combat Chronology p. 130 Supplement p. 432 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |