Theodore Ronald Lipchitz
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
390th BG - 568th BS - 8th AF
Standing L to R: Howard H. Carey (FE), Vernon Bohn (BTG), Hector Marsiglia (RO), Henry Wilson (WG), Unidentified Person
Kneeling L to R: Clarence Strawn (P), John Watts (CP), Theodore Lipchitz (N), Charles Bennett (B)
This is an odd photo as it appears that someone has tried to paste a face on the body identified as Clarence Strawn. The face doesn't really look like other known photos of Strawn. 390th Bomb Group collection
Notes
Object Number - UPL 46165 - Clarence Strawn Crew 390th BG - 568th BS - 8th AF Standing L to R: Howard H. Carey (FE), Vernon Bohn (BTG), Hector Marsiglia (RO), Henry Wilson...
Theodore Lipchitz was Navigator on board B-17 #42-39819, hit by Flak on return from the 13 April 1944 mission to Augsburg, Germany. Ditched in the Channel/North Sea, about 18km West of the entrance to the port of Ostend, Belgium. Killed In Action (KIA).
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32686782
- Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11122497
- Highest Rank: Technician Fourth Grade
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-693672
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 6149248
- Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32829895
- Highest Rank: Technician Fourth Grade
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Phyllis Marie
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Cincinnati queen / blues in the night
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: The Paper Doll
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Anoxia Queen
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 13 April 1944
- Date: 11 April 1944
- Date: 10 April 1944
- Date: 1 April 1944
- Date: 27 March 1944
Places
![A bomber crew of the 390th Bomb Group with their B-17 Flying Fortress ( serial number 42-31027) nicknamed "Honey Chile" and their dog and monkey mascots "Scrappy" and "Joe". Image stamped on reverse: ‘Fox.’ [stamp], ‘passed for publication 25 Oct 1943.’ [stamp] and ‘289774.’ [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: ‘AERIAL MASCOTS OF FORTRESS CREWS. PH/MoN. As frisky and friendly a pair of aerial mascots as you'll find in Britain are "Scrappy" and "Joe", pup and monkey team belonging to the](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-380433.jpg.webp?itok=L7HbOA_i)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Parham
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
New Haven, Connecticut, USA | 15 December 1918 | the son of David and Flora Lipchitz |
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Enlisted |
Washington, DC | 26 January 1942 | |
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Other 390th BG Combat Tour |
Framlingham Airfield, UK | 3 February 1944 - 13 April 1944 | |
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
English Channel, approx 12 miles off the coast of Ostend, Belgium | 13 April 1944 | in the crash of B-17 #42-39819 in the Channel, about 18km West of the entrance to the port of Ostend, Belgium |
| Kings County, New York | |||
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Buried |
New Haven, CT | Warshaver Relief - Ahavas Achim Cemetery New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3947 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
