Rogers M Edgar
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
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UPL 15063
Memorial on Green Lane, Redenhall, Suffolk, erected by Peter Kent, who was a boy at the time of the crash.
Removed Homer Gentry, who did not die in this crash. According to his headstone application, accessed via ancestry.com, he died a year earlier and was a member of the 705th Squadron, not the 706th.
Killed when 2 planes collided over base as they were coming in for landing after mission to Regenberg.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Little King
- Unit: 446th Bomb Group 706th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
- Known as: Harleston
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
19 January 1924 | ||
Died |
Redenhall, Harleston, Norfolk IP20, UK | 11 April 1945 | |
Buried |
New Martinsville, WV, USA | Northview Cemetery New Martinsville Wetzel County West Virginia, USA |
Revisions
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Changes
Sources
Correcting crew list; private document taken from website no longer available.
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Changes
Sources
Find A Grave Memorial# 133647261
ancestry.com: headstone application
Fold3: casualty lists
History of the 446th Bomb Group, Harold Jansen, p275
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Changes
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446th unit history / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia