Richard W Duer

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-13253.jpeg UPL 13253 93rd Bomb Group Roll of Honor at Hardwick Airfield Memorial Museum.

All information correct as on Roll of Honor board

Object Number - UPL 13253 - 93rd Bomb Group Roll of Honor at Hardwick Airfield Memorial Museum.

In the Army Corps since December 1941, Richard Duer served a year in Panama and South America on bomber patrol duty. He was subsequently sent back to the States for training as a flight engineer on a B-24 Liberator bomber and was then sent overseas in June 1943. Staff Sgt. Duer was the husband of Mrs. Doris Coder Duer, 8 Second Street, Ridgeley, West Virginia. He had been reported missing in action since November 13, 1943, when he failed to return from an aerial raid over Bremen, Germany. The War Department reported that his plane was last seen in the vicinity of Wangeroog Island, one of the East Frisian Islands group about five miles off the northwest coast of Germany. His B-24D #42-41004 “The Urgin' Virgin” (on which he served as Tail Gunner) was lost in the North Sea on the 13 November 1943 mission to Bremen, Germany, with all 11 men onboard still missing. Killed In Action (KIA).

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Units served with

The insignia of the 93rd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: T-190737
  • Highest Rank: Flight Officer
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35013607 at enlistment, then O-734896
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13011885
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 17031466
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator
Man with the rank of Colonel wearing  WWII era Air Force uniform shaking hands with man wearing a similar uniform but with the rank of staff sergeant.  Two other uniformed men are in the background
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11045730
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: - The Urgin Virgin
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

13 December 1941 Washington, District of Columbia

Other

Killed In Action (KIA)

13 November 1943 in the ditching in the North Sea of B-24D #42-41004

Born

West Virginia
Ridgeley, Mineral County, West Virginia

Buried

Richard Duer is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge

Revisions

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ContributorED-BB
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Sources

MACR 2182
WWII Enlistment Records
NARA WWII Casualties for Mineral County, West Virginia : https://nara-media-001.s3.amazonaws.com/arcmedia/media/images/29/21/29-…
ABMC website
Details at http://www.ourbrickwalls.com/subpage314.html

Date
ContributorED-BB
Changes
Sources

Added a “ ’ ” at Urgin in the Summary biography – Source : Wallace R. Forman's "B-24 Nose Art Name Directory"

Date
Contributorjmoore43
Changes
Sources

Added a "-" to the A/C serial # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity.

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ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

ABMC; MACR 2182 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2182 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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