Miles League
Military | Colonel | Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
Pilot 42-40610, flew on 1-Aug-43 Ploesti oil refinery raid, returning safely to Libya.
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Robert Noble Daves
Military
Assigned to 409BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. TDY 9th AF. Crew member 42-40610, flew on 1-Aug-43 Ploesti oil refinery raid, returning safely to Libya.
Later on 9-Oct-43 on mission to bomb Danzig U-Boat production in B-24 42-40610 'Satan's Sister' A/C took flak hits, lost engine on return, diverting to Sweden. A/C Belly landed in Rinkaby airfield, Sweden. Interned.
Awards: DFC, AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
Service
People
Units served with
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93rd Bomb Group
Group
The 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 1 Mar 42 at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. On 15 May 42. the Group moved to Ft. Myers, Florida, to continue advanced flight training and also to fly antisubmarine patrols over the Gulf of Mexico. They... -
409th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-40610 'Satan's Sister'
B-24 Liberator
Flew on 1st Aug 43 Ploesti oil refinery raid, returning safely to Libya. ...
Missions
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Operation Tidal Wave
1 August 1943
Operation TIDAL WAVE. B-24D Liberators attack the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania. The bombers flew low to avoid radar detection and dropped time delayed bombs. Out of the 177 B-24s that took part in the raid 167 managed to attack their targets. 57...
Associated Place
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Hardwick
Military site : airfield
Planned as an RAF bomber airfield, Hardwick was used first by the 310th Bomb Group, equipped with B-25 Mitchells. B-24 Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group moved in briefly in March 1943, then returned in June 1943 remaining until the end of the war and...
Events
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| Born | Mellette, SD | 4 November 1921 |
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Son of Elsie B Daves. |
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| Enlisted | New York City, NY | 29 July 1940 |
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New York City, New York |
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| Survived Ploesti | Ploiești, Romania | 1 August 1943 |
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Flew on 1-Aug-43 Ploesti oil refinery raid, returning safely to Libya. |
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| Interned (INT) | 291 76 Rinkaby, Sweden | 9 October 1943 |
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9-Oct-43 on mission to bomb Danzig U-Boat production in B-24 42-40610 'Satan's Sister' A/C took flak hits, lost engine on return, diverting to Sweden. A/C Belly landed in Rinkaby airfield, Sweden. Interned. |
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| Died | Winter Springs, FL | 7 September 1995 |
| Lived in | Englewood, New Jersey | |
| Assigned | Benghazi, Libya | |
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Assigned to 409BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. TDY 9th AF. |
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Revisions
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| 28 February 2021 11:18:12 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, service number, biography, awards, events, person associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/28608338 |
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| 11 October 2019 14:19:19 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to biography and events |
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| 13 April 2015 13:26:07 | Al_Skiff | Changes to role, biography, events, unit associations and mission associations |
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| 27 September 2014 18:23:56 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 830 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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