Scott Barrows
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 390th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-3310 'Blood, Guts and Rust'. Plane ditched into Mediterranean Sea. Returned to base.
Wade Hampton Sneed Jr.
Military
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1LT Wade Hampton Sneed, Jr. Pilot 390th BG - 568 BS KIA 10 October 1943
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Wade Hampton Sneed Crew 390th BG - 568th BS - 8th AF Standing Left to Right: Unknown, John E. Wentzel (CP), Scott L. Barrows (B), Melvin Breckenridge (N), Wade Sneed (P), Bertil Olson (FE) Kneeling Left to Right: Unknown, John W. Danielsen (WG), Unknown, Carl F. Spirito (TG)
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Wade H. Sneed Crew 390th BG - 568th BS - 8th AF Standing L to R: Bertil R. Olson (FE), Virgil B. Ulven (RO), Walter J. Swiniuchowski (BTG), Clarence E. Payne (WG), John W. Danielsen (WG), Carl F. Spirito (TG) Kneeling Left to Right: Wade H. Sneed (P), John E. Wenzel (CP), Melvin H. Breckenridge (N), Scott L. Barrows (B)
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 42-3310 'Blood, Guts and Rust'. Plane ditched into Mediterranean Sea. Returned to base.
Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 42-3328 'Miss Fortune', Killed in Action (KIA).
Service
People
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Melvin Breckenridge
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 390th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-3310 'Blood, Guts and Rust'. Plane ditched into Mediterranean Sea. Returned to base. Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #42-3328 'Miss Fortune', Killed in Action (KIA). -
John Danielsen
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Waist Gunner | 390th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-3310 'Blood, Guts and Rust'. Plane ditched into Mediterranean Sea. Returned to base. Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #42-3328 'Miss Fortune', Prisoner of War (POW). POW -
Lewis Gardner
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 390th Bomb Group
Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #42-3328 'Miss Fortune', Killed in Action (KIA). -
Darwin Michaelsen
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 390th Bomb Group
Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #42-3328 'Miss Fortune', Killed in Action (KIA). -
Bertil Olson
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Flight Engineer | 390th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-3310 'Blood, Guts and Rust'. Plane ditched into Mediterranean Sea. Returned to base. Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #42-3328 'Miss Fortune', Killed in Action (KIA). -
Clarence Payne
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Waist Gunner | 390th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-3310 'Blood, Guts and Rust'. Plane ditched into Mediterranean Sea. Returned to base. Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #42-3328 'Miss Fortune', Prisoner of War (POW). POW -
Carl Spirito
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Tail Gunner | 390th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-3310 'Blood, Guts and Rust'. Plane ditched into Mediterranean Sea. Returned to base. Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #42-3328 'Miss Fortune', Prisoner of War (POW) -
Walter Swiniuchowski
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Ball Turret Gunner | 390th Bomb Group
Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #42-3328 'Miss Fortune', Killed in Action (KIA). -
Virgil Ulven
Military | Staff Sergeant | Radio Operator | 390th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-3310 'Blood, Guts and Rust'. Plane ditched into Mediterranean Sea. Returned to base. Crew Number 5.
Units served with
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390th Bomb Group
Group
The 390th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Framlingham, Suffolk, between July 1943 and the end of the war in Europe. The Group was engaged in strategic missions until the invasion of Europe when its role became more of a tactical one. This... -
568th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-3310 'Blood, Guts and Rust'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 2/6/43; Dow Fd 11/7/43; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-F] Framlingham 14/7/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Wade Sneed, Co-pilot: John Wenzel, Navigator: Melvin Breckenridge, Bombardier: Scott Barrows, Flight engineer/top... -
42-3328 'Miss Fortune'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 10/5/43; Tinker 22/7/43; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-D] Framlingham 15/7/43; Missing in Action (15m) Munster 10/10/43 with Wade Sneed, Co-pilot: Darwin Michaelson, Navigator: Melvin Breckenridge, Bombardier: Lew Gardner, Flight engineer...
Associated Place
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Framlingham
Military site : airfield
Built for the Eighth Air Force from 1942 to 43, Framlingham was home first to the 95th Bomb Group, before that unit moved to RAF Alconbury. From 1943 to 1945, it was operated by the 390th Bomb Group. The airfield was handed back to the RAF in 1945, and...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Norfolk, VA | 28 August 1918 |
| Lived in | Augusta, GA | 1941 |
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958 Heard Avenue |
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| Enlisted | Atlanta, GA | 2 October 1941 |
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Fort McPherson |
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| Shot Down/Bailed Out | Med. Sea, 13 miles off the coast of Annaba (Bone), Algeria | 17 August 1943 |
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Blood, Guts, & Rust (23310-F, 568): after having sustained heavy damage from flak fire, the crew of the "Blood, Guts, & Rust" was eventually forced to ditch in the Med. All were rescued |
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| Killed In Action | Vorsundern, Germany | 10 October 1943 |
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A/C hit by a rocket which severed the tail and caused a collision with another 390th BG B-17 |
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| Buried | Beverly National Cemetery, New Jersey | 1950 |
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Beverly National Cemetery |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 26 November 2020 19:52:40 | 466thHistorian | Changes to events |
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B-17 Flying Fortress Story - Roger Freeman |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 26 November 2020 19:51:44 | 466thHistorian | Changes to events |
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B-17 Flying Fortress Story - Roger Freeman |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 26 November 2020 03:20:02 | 466thHistorian | Changes to service number |
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https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2590/images/40479_64693... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 26 November 2020 03:18:38 | 466thHistorian | Changes to middlename, highest rank, awards, events and place associations |
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https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=9277&h=252844&t... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 10 April 2020 21:03:21 | jmoore43 | Changes to nickname |
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Added "Possible DUPLICATE" in the Nickname field so an Admin can check out this person. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 10 April 2020 21:02:16 | jmoore43 | Changes to aircraft associations |
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Added a connection to A/C #42-3328 listed in the "Summary biography". |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 10 April 2020 18:15:27 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "-" to the A/C serial # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:26:40 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 396 / MACR 396; MACR 861 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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