Samuel N Blatchford

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media-16686.jpeg UPL 16686 Lieutenant Walter C. Euwers crew call themselves "The Nasty Ten". Here their radioman, Sergeant Sam Blatchford, Navajo Indian of Fort Defiance, Arizona, decorates the back of the leather jacket of their Tail Gunner, Sergeant Louis A. ("Staff") Hamilton, of Adrian, Michigan, while (left to right) Euwer, Waist Gunner, Sergeant Cyril Koval, of Jersey City, New Jersey and Tail Gunner Sergeant Clifford D. Hart, of Wenachee, Washington,

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Object Number - UPL 16686 - Lieutenant Walter C. Euwers crew call themselves "The Nasty Ten". Here their radioman, Sergeant Sam Blatchford, Navajo Indian of Fort Defiance,...

Shot down 16 September 1943 in B-17 #4229901. Evaded.

Died 2008.

Buried at Arlington National Cemetery

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Units served with

The insignia of the 379th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron

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Born

Lawton, Oklahoma, États-Unis

Buried

Evaded

16 September 1943

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All information from the site Military.Wikia.com

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of his real name: Norwood Manuelits Beeastiligar.
His mother, Pauline Manuelito was the great-granddaughter of the great warrior Chief "Manuelito" who fought Kit Carson in the Navajo War and led his people in exile to the current Navajo reservation.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1347 / Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum Membership List, July 2000; MACR 1347; 379th Bombardment Group Anthology, pg 279 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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