Randolph George Edward Jacobs
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Randolph G. E. Jacobs completed a 25 mission combat tour and volunteered to fly five additional missions. He was Killed in Action on his first additional mission.
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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: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-798297
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35472350
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-800687
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13074210
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner / Flight Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33192689
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: El Rauncho
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron 94th Bomb Group
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Reno's Raider
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Sea Hag
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 8 May 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Grafton Undermud
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Enlisted |
Fort Wayne, IN, USA | 17 January 1941 | Enlisted ASN: 20533862 Residence: Allen County, Indiana Private,Infantry |
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Other Assigned |
France | 31 July 1943 - 8 May 1944 | Assigned to the 384th Bombardment Group, 544th Bombardment Squadron on AAF Station 106 Special Orders 59 dated 31 July 1943, as crew pilot. (Flight Officer ASN T-60327). 26 combat missions. |
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Other Crash Landed |
Grafton Underwood, Kettering, Northamptonshire NN14, UK | 17 August 1943 | Aircraft sustained severe battle damage on the first Schweinfurt mission and crash landed at base, Station 106. |
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Other Ditched, Rescued |
English Channel | 30 December 1943 | Comments: Composite Squadron Leader; Aircraft 42-31274, SEA HAG, mechanical fault; 15 minutes over France #1 prop ran away, threw chunks of cowling, and caught on fire; MACR 1768; ditched in Channel at 1125 hrs; nine crew picked up, one missing; crew at Swanley Manor Hospital in Lewes. Flexible Gunner, Aldo Joseph Gregori was lost at sea. MACR #1768 The name 'SEA HAG' derives from a remark by the pilot, Randolph Jacobs: 'I just couldn't keep the old Sea Hag in the air.' |
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Other Killed in Action |
8 May 1944 | Group lead. The aircraft was hit by continuously tracking flak about 40 seconds before bomb release; aircraft received direct burst beneath the pilot's compartment; started in to a steep spiral; crashed about 7 miles SW of Valognes, France. MACR 4560 | |
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Born |
Indiana, USA | 8 May 1944 |
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2016-05-09: Consolidated with information from AAM duplicate file http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/176673
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Sources
MACR 4560 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
