William Williams
Military | Captain | Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
B-24D-1-CO 41-23712 'Ambros' crashed at Porlock Bay, Somerset, killing all crew except Sergeant. H. B. Thorpe.
Stephen Casimir Prekel
Military
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Stephen C. Prekel, 93rd Bomb Group
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93rd Bomb Group Roll of Honor at Hardwick Airfield Memorial Museum.
Assigned to 330BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. B-24 1-23712 'Ambros' crashed at Porlock Bay, Somerset, killing all crew except Sergeant. H. B. Thorpe. 29-Oct-42 Killed in Service (KIS)
Awards: PH.
Service
People
Units served with
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93rd Bomb Group
Group
The 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 1 Mar 42 at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. On 15 May 42. the Group moved to Ft. Myers, Florida, to continue advanced flight training and also to fly antisubmarine patrols over the Gulf of Mexico. They... -
330th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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41-23712 Ambros
B-24 Liberator
29 October 1942, B-24D-1-CO 41-23712 'Ambros' crashed at Porlock Bay, Somerset. ...
Associated Place
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Tafaraoui
Military site : airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Pittston, Pennsylvania | 30 March 1920 |
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Son of Frances Prekel. |
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| Enlisted | Wilkes Barre, PA | 19 August 1941 |
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Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania |
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| Based | 1942 – 29 October 1942 | |
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Assigned to 330BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Died | Porlock, Somerset | 29 October 1942 |
| Buried | Cambridge American Cemetery | 1946 |
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Re-Interred |
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Revisions
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| 29 December 2021 17:55:34 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, biography, events, person associations, unit associations and place associations |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 08 March 2017 10:45:35 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to events and aircraft associations |
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Associated media and aircraft from ‘Losses of the US 8th & 9th Air Forces’, Bishop and Hey |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:25:23 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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ABMC, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey p. 40 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |
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