Calvin Steele Hallman

Military
media-52505.jpeg UPL 52505 Back L-R: Robert L Poss, Wendell R Weatherley, Salvatore P Palandino, Carl W Short.

Front L-R: Max E Kirby, Calvin S Hallman, H B Tomkin, Leonard V Penny, Henry H Hill.

USAAF Photo

Object Number - UPL 52505 - Back L-R: Robert L Poss, Wendell R Weatherley, Salvatore P Palandino, Carl W Short. Front L-R: Max E Kirby, Calvin S Hallman, H B Tomkin, Leonard...

Assigned to 614BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF. Carl Short crew. Last 5 missions of ETO.





Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-?
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Lady Vivian
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Tagalong, Duke's Mixture
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Gambler's Choice
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
A B-17 Flying Fortress of the 401st Bomb Group, airborne in spite of the flak hole ripped into its left wing. Printed caption on reverse: '56751 AC- BERLIN DAMAGE- Flak over Berlin, March 18 1945, during the more than 1300 heavy bomber attack on rail and industrial targets in the capital city of the Reich, was responsible for the torn wing tip on the US Eight AF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Intense anti-aircraft fire made things hot for the heavy bombers over the target. US Air Force Photo.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Lancaster, York County, SC 12 January 1925 Son of Ira Blakeley and Eunice [Steele] Hallman.

Enlisted

Fort Jackson, Columbia, SC 9 April 1943 Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina

Died

Rock Hill, SC 3 July 2003

Buried

Forest Hills Cemetery Rock Hill, York County, SC 6 July 2003 Forest Hills Cemetery Rock Hill, York County, South Carolina

Other

Hospitalised

Sioux Falls AAF, SD Hospitalised Sioux Falls AAF, South Dakota, Aug-45, Scabies. RTD

Based

Deenethorpe Assigned to 614BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF.

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614th unit history

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401st web site and personal papers of Calvin S Hallman.

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