Wallace G Rinehart

Military
media-17485.jpeg UPL 17485 Rinehart McCool photos

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Object Number - UPL 17485 - Rinehart

28 missions



AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster/ ACM/ EAMECM/ WWIIVM

Wallace had married his childhood sweetheart Wilma 27 April 1944 just after he had completed his pilot training and been commissioned. He left for England shortly after on the 'Queen Mary', returning to the USA after VE Day.

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Units served with

A Pathfinder B-24 Liberator (V2-P+, serial number 42-51691) of the 491st Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '491 BG supplying troops at Arnhem, Sept 1944.'

491st Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

44-50532

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Is this trip necessary? , Blonde Bombshell
  • Unit: 491st Bomb Group 853rd Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Adrian, Michigan 25 April 1922

Died

17 August 1990

Buried

Lenawee Memorial Park, Adrian, Michigan

Revisions

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Ringmasters Log Winter 1997

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Wilma J. Rinehart Cahill

Wallace G Rinehart: Gallery (7 items)

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Object number: UPL 17492 - Greaser crew "Blonde Bombshell"

Object number: UPL 17495 - Greaser crew , "Blonde Bombshell"

Object number: UPL 17498 - B24 # 4450532 "Blonde Bombshell " Greaser crew Bad...

Object number: UPL 17508 - Blonde Bombshell Greaser crew