Robert Harry Riedel

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Assigned to 749FS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF. Returning to base from diversion airfield, letting down on instruments, crashed two miles north of Great Rollright, Oxfordshire, UK (the crash site was actually in Warwickshire) 23-12-44. Died Non Battle (DNB).



Awards: PH.

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Units served with

Unofficial emblem of the 457th Bomb Group.

457th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Clifford Hendrickson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16134977 / O-812261
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bomber pilot

Aircraft

media-30710.pdf (2.23 MB) Document 30710 Remembering the Crew of B-17G 43-38812.

Added caption and association.

43-38812

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron

Missions

The wreck of a B-24 Liberator of the 93rd Bomb Group that crashed on take off near Aldeburgh, 19 December 1944. Image via Glenn Tessmer, 93rd Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: '19/12/44 Aldeburgh, Norfolk, crash on t/o.' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Crash site. Taken about 1 hour after crash. Mission was then scrubbed. Just off end of south runway. Lead aircraft 93BG at Hardwick, Eng. Probably Dec 15-23, 1944. Note weather! The exact date of the crash can be verified in 2nd A.D/ news letters. I can

756

  • Date: 19 December 1944

Places

The mission board of the 457th Bomb Group. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-299-2-457)(16/5/45)(Op's Board's).'

Glatton

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Connington

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Ohio, USA 21 January 1925 Son of Harry E and Irene [Speck] Riedel.

Enlisted

Ohio, USA 2 June 1943

Died

Great Rollright, Chipping Norton OX7, UK 23 December 1944 Returning to base from diversion airfield, letting down on instruments, crashed two miles north of Great Rollright, Oxfordshire, UK (the crash site was actually in Warwickshire) 23-12-44. Died Non Battle (DNB).

Based

Glatton 23 December 1944 Assigned to 749FS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF.
Ohio, USA

Buried

Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Coton Cambridgeshire

Buried

North Olmsted, OH, USA Sunset Memorial Park North Olmsted Cuyahoga County Ohio, USA

Revisions

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.457thbombgroup.org/roster/Rnames.html