Roy E Caver

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Killed in Action (KIA) ; B-17 'Magnificent Obsession' #4338068

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Units served with

The insignia of the 490th Bomb Group.

490th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

43-38068

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Magnificent Obsession
  • Unit: 490th Bomb Group 850th Bomb Squadron

Places

Eye, home of the 490th Bomb Group, photographed from the air. Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'Eye from air.'

Eye

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Brome

Events

Event Location Date Description

Died

19 March 1945 German document called "Nachweis über Verstorbene Angehörige der Vereinten Nationen in den Lazaretten Zu Herborn" (Identification of died memebers of the United Nations at the mitlitary hospitals at Herborn) indicates that caver died on March 19th 1945. However, his grave stone dated the 28th March 1945. He was exhuminated on January 16th 1946 and brought to Margarten / Netherlands

Born

Dallas, Texas, USA

Other

Wounded in Action (WIA)

Germany 9 March 1945 Wounded during the belly landing of his B-17 and got POW.

Revisions

Date
ContributorClaudio Becker
Changes
Sources

German Documents of the military hospital at Herborn, contact with Lloyd Wells, American War Grave Commision; Book "Luftkrieg über dem Dillgebiet" page 275 following

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 12947 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database