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Randolph Cheatham Moore

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Killed in A/C #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.

Service

People

  • Ralph Wright

    Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 100th Bomb Group
    Killed in B-17 42-38053 'Cap'n Crow' in a form up accident over the base. on 7-May-44. 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...

Units served with

Aircraft

  • 42-38053 JENNY LEE

    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...

Events

Event Location Date
Born North Carolina 7 December 1913

findagrave.com says he was born in Virginia.
Memorialized Crewe, VA USA

Crewe Cemetery
Crewe
Nottoway County
Virginia, USA
Buried

Plot F Row 1 Grave 38
Nationality
American
Nickname
Not yet known
Service numbers
34211048
Highest rank
Staff Sergeant
Role/job
Waist Gunner
Awards
  • Purple Heart

Revisions

Date Contributor Update
25 July 2021 20:43:22 jmoore43 Changes to biography
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Added punctuation in the "Summary biography" to aid readability.
Date Contributor Update
08 May 2015 16:52:11 usxpat Changes to events and place associations
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https://100thbg.com
Date Contributor Update
08 May 2015 16:23:05 usxpat Changes to place associations and media associations
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https://100thbg.com
Final Flights, Ian McLaghlan, ©1989
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
Date Contributor Update
27 September 2014 18:21:56 AAM AAM ingest
Sources

Combat Chronology p. 130 Supplement p. 432 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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