Tazwell Wingfield
Military | Flight Officer | Navigator | 94th Bomb Group
INT Had mechanical failure and landed in Switzerland on 7/12/44 in B-17 'Gloria' #42102457
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INT Had mechanical failure and landed in Switzerland on 7/12/44 in B-17 'Gloria' #42102457
Military | Flight Officer | Navigator | 94th Bomb Group
INT Had mechanical failure and landed in Switzerland on 7/12/44 in B-17 'Gloria' #42102457
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Group
Activated 15 June 1942 at MacDill Field, Florida. Initial organization and training at Pendleton Field, Oregon on 29 June 1942. Primary flight training at Davis-Monthan Field in Arizona from 28 Aug. 42 to 31 Oct. 42; then at Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas...
Squadron
Part of 94th Bomb Group.
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 5/3/44; Kearney 22/3/44; Dow Field 4 March 1944; Assigned 410BS/94BG [GL-R] Rougham 6 April 1944. Nicknamed "FILTHY HAG". Was hit by Flak at an altitude of 23,000 feet on the 22 April 1944 mission to Hamm, Germany. It caught fire, 2...
12 July 1944
Military site : airfield
The airfield was purpose-built for American bomb groups and as such had a 2,000 yard main runway that lain in concrete with a tarred and wood-chipped surface. The scale of bases such as this meant that very often the technical, administrative and...
Military site : airfield
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Shinnston, West Virginia, USA | |
Interned (INT) | Switzerland | 12 July 1944 |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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06 April 2015 21:34:10 | klindenb | Changes to media associations |
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From personal crew records |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:04:54 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7510 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |