Thomas Robert Murphy

Military

Shot down 9 April 1944 in B-24 #42-52432. Evaded. Escape & Evasion Report E&E 585.

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'

458th Bomb Group

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

People

Edward Walter Cisek

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11115616
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Bernard Arthur Jacobson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: T-123027
  • Highest Rank: Flight Officer
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Walter John Kita

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32205911 at enlistment, then T-001541
  • Highest Rank: Flight Officer
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

Byron Ellsworth Logie

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19071807 at enlistment, then O-807003
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

George David Reed

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19096186 at enlistment, then O-811138
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Aircraft

42-52432

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Bachelor's Paradise
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Pennsylvania 22 December 1922

Other

Evaded capture (EVD)

9 April 1944 - 25 April 1944 After landing at the edge of the village of Hårslev, 3km NE of Venslev, Denmark, he was helped to Roskilde, together with his Co-Pilot George Reed. On 10 April, he took a taxi to Copenhagen. On 16 April he was put on a boat to Helsingborg, Sweden and contacted the British Legation. He arrived in Stockholm on 18 April and met a Military Air attaché. Left Stockholm by air on 25 April and landed in St Andrews, UK on the following day.

Died

13 July 1999
Brooklyn, New York

Buried

Thomas Murphy rests at the Santa Fe National Cemetery in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Revisions

Date
ContributorED-BB
Changes
Sources

MACR 3838
Escape & Evasion Report E&E 585
Veterans Affairs BIRLS death File
VA Gravesite Locator

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3838 / MACR 3838 & Page 280 of the book LIBERATORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database