Merlin Gaudet
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 446th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) near northwest of Wesel, Germany in B-24 'Queen of Angels' #4250735.
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Military
Killed in Action (KIA) near Wesel in B-24 'Queen of Angels' #4250735
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 446th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) near northwest of Wesel, Germany in B-24 'Queen of Angels' #4250735.
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Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner and Armorer (MOS 612) | 446th Bomb Group
Lone survivor of B-24 'Queen of Angels' #42-50735. Sustaining burns from the on-board fire, Alan bailed out of the burning aircraft at an altitude of 100-150 ft. He broke his ankle upon landing. He was immediately captured by the Germans and was a POW...
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 446th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) northwest of Wesel, Germany in B-24 'Queen of Angels' #42-50735. He was also the pilot of the "Bangin' Lulu" #42-51091.
Group
The 446th Bomb Group, who came to be known as "the Bungay Buckaroos" after the name of their Suffolk base, flew B-24 Liberators on strategic, support and interdictory missions over Europe. The Group led the Eighth Air Force and 2nd Bomb Division on the...
Squadron
B-24 Liberator
Military site : airfield
From late November 1943, the three bases of Bungay, Seething and Hardwick were the stations of the 20th Combat Wing of the Eighth Air Force. The base had previously housed individual squadrons of the 310th Bomb Group (Twelfth Air Force) and of the 93rd...
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Cicero, Illinois, USA | |
Killed in Action (KIA) | Germany | 24 March 1945 |
Died | 24 March 1945 |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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05 September 2015 21:32:18 | gwap53 | Changes to middlename, nickname, role and place associations |
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Ancestry.com |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:23:37 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 13537 / MACR 14181 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |