Richard H Bradley

Military
media-7282.jpeg UPL 7282 Crew # 787 & #495
Irving D. Waterbury Crew
466th BG - 787th and 784th Bomb Squadrons
B-24L-10-FO #44-49626 "White Elephant" Code: T9-J

Standing Left to Right: Henry C. Thomas (N), Harry F. Faggetter (PN), Irving D. Waterbury (P), Robert R. Mundy (RN), Theodore R. Watson (CP), Santo J. Parfumi (B)

Kneeling Left to Right: Richard Bradley (G), Milton DeMarco (TG), Gerald Mickel (R/O),

Missing from Photo: William Baron (G), Harold Laib (FE)

This crew flew seven missions with the 787th BS and four missions with the 784th BS as a lead crew before hostilities ended.
Faggetter also flew missions with the Elmer S. Anderson Crew (Crew #778).
Parfumi also flew missions with the J.M. Daniels Crew (Crew #786) 466th Bomb Group collection

466th BG Historian

Object Number - UPL 7282 - Crew # 787 & #495 Irving D. Waterbury Crew 466th BG - 787th and 784th Bomb Squadrons B-24L-10-FO #44-49626 "White Elephant" Code: ...

He was an avid history buff and family researcher whose roots in Camden County go back to 1838 when the first member of his mother's Brown family settled here and his great grandfather, Lewis Sinclair Brown, followed a few years later. The Bradley family homesteaded in Camden County in 1874. From his youth Richard loved to farm, hunt and fish and spent many happy years enjoying these activities with numerous family and friends on his farm.

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Units served with

Three little girls hold up a balloon celebrating the 100th mission of the 466th Bomb Group in front of a B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-95592) nicknamed "Black Cat". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'On our 100 Mission party Day- 18 Aug 1944, Attlebridge, 466th- wouldn't it be something if we could identify these girls? How could I do it?'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron 787th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-2058313
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Places

Aerial photograph of Attlebridge airfield, looking north, the fuel store and a T2 hangar are in the upper centre, 31 January 1946. Photograph taken by No. 90 Squadron, sortie number RAF/3G/TUD/UK/51. English Heritage (RAF Photography).
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Stoutland, Missouri 15 November 1924

Died

Linn Creek, MO 65052, USA 21 October 2012 Richard Henry Bradley, Sr., 87, of Linn Creek, Missouri passed away on Sunday, October 21, 2012 at his home. He was born November 15, 1924 in Camden County, Missouri to Elsworth and Emma Luvenia (Brown) Bradley on the farm of his grandparents, Henry Clay and Margaret Melvina (Thomas) Bradley. Richard attended grades 1-8 at the rural Brown School and graduated from Stoutland High School in 1942. In 1943-1945 he served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War ll in the 466th Bombardment Group, 2nd Air Division, 8th Air Force, stationed in Attlebridge, England. On the crew of a B24 bomber flying runs over Germany, he served as flight engineer, waist gunner, armorer, and was a Staff Sergeant at the time of his discharge after the war ended. In 1946, Richard married Mary Alice (Shipman) Lucas, a young widow whose first husband was killed during World War II. She brought a young son Martin Luther "Ted" Lucas III, to the marriage, and she and Richard had a son, Richard Henry Bradley, Jr., in 1954. Richard lived and worked in the Kansas City area for many years before returning to his roots and buying additional farmland in Camden County where he and Mary lived, farmed, and raised cattle for much of their fifty-three years together.

Buried

Linn Creek, MO 65052, USA 24 October 2012 Freedom Church of Christ Cemetery Linn Creek Camden County Missouri, USA

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self

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