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Flying Fortress B-17G 42-102700 "I'll Get By" 412th BS, 95th BG, 8AF USAAF. Photo includes; Oscar Walrod, Frank Sohm, Donald Phillips, Barney Lipkin, Jasper Kaylor, Robert Hill, Raymond Dallas, Walter Collyer, Elmer Bockman, and Robert Baber.
Summary of the loss of the B-17G 'I'll Get By' of the 412th BS, 95th BG, 8th AF on 2 Aug 44 at Airan, France. Note: existing database on the A/C has a number of errors. Please contact me for attachments listed in the PDF -- too large to upload. jack@wormington.com
Pilot B-17 42-102700 "I'll Get By" Shot down by flak and crashed near Lisieux. 2-8-44. Killed in Action (KIA).
Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Assigned to 412BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. Co-Pilot B-17 42-102700 "I'll Get By", Shot down by flak and crashed near Lisieux. 2-Aug-44. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 7701
Awards: PH.
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 26/3/44; Hunter 16/4/44; Dow Fd 3/5/44; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-Z] Horham 4/5/44; 22m, Missing in Action Paris 2/8/44 with Capt Bob Baber, Co-pilot: Jasper Kaylor, Navigator: Ray Dallas, Bombardier: Frank Sohm, Flight engineer/top...
2 August 1944
Military site : airfield
Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group....
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| Born | Paducah, Kentucky, USA | |
| Lived in | Dodge City, KS 67801, USA | 1940 |
| Died | 14100 Lisieux, France | 2 August 1944 |
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Shot down by flak and crashed near Lisieux. 2-8-44. Killed in Action (KIA). |
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| Buried | Chapel Hill Cemetery, Gypsum, KS 67448, USA | September 1944 |
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Gypsum Hill Cemetery in Salina, Kansas. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 20 December 2015 11:20:15 | Al_Skiff | Changes to service number, biography, awards, events, unit associations, place associations, mission associations and media associations |
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AAM DB Entry. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:23:57 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7701 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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