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Staff Sergeant Warren M Rankin , 457th Bomb Group, 749th Bomb Squadron.
Crew of "Half and Half" 42-38064
B-17G-25-DL Fortress, 42-38064, "Half and Half", 457th Bomb Group, 749th Bomb Squadron.
Staff Sergeant Warren M Rankin , 457th Bomb Group, 749th Bomb Squadron.
Assigned to 749BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Merseberg in B-17 'Half N Half' 42-38064 Mid air collision with B-17 44-8418 8-Nov-44, Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 10344.
Awards: AM (3OLC), PH.
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 457th Bomb Group
Assigned to 749BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Merseberg in B-17 'Half N Half' 42-38064 Mid air collision with B-17 44-8418 8-Nov-44, Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 10344
Awards: AM (3OLC), PH.
Group
The 457th Bomb Group began combat operations during the Big Week of 20-25 February when American bombers carried out concentrated raids against German aircraft bases, factories and assembly plants. The air crews' targets on that first mission were...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 1/12/43; Wendover 11/12/43; Grenier 10/1/44; Assigned 749BS/457BG [G/Q] Glatton 26/1/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 8/11/44 with Arnett Furr, Co-pilot: Sterling Book, Navigator: Joe Andrews, Bombardier: Leon Plagianos, Flight...
Military site : airfield
Glatton, which lay mostly in the parish of Conington, was built by the 809th Engineer Battalion (Aviation) of the U.S. Army in the last months of 1942. Unusually, the base's three runways surrounded Rose Court Farm, which remained a working farm...
Cemetery
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Clarks Green, Pennsylvania, USA | 24 February 1920 |
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Son of Donald and Rita W Rankin. |
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| Lived in | Schuylkill County, PA, USA | 1941 |
| Enlisted | Fort Meade, MD, USA | 9 March 1942 |
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Fort George G Meade, Maryland |
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| Based | Glatton | 1944 – 8 November 1944 |
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Assigned to 749BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Died | English Channel | 8 November 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) Merseberg in B-17 'Half N Half' 42-38064 Mid air collision with B-17 44-8418 8-Nov-44, Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 10344 |
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| Buried | Netherlands American Cemetery | 1946 |
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Tablets of the Missing |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 02 August 2021 16:38:30 | Al_Skiff | Changes to biography and events |
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56300087/warren-m-rankin |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 02 August 2021 15:02:18 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added punctuation in the "Summary biography" to aid readability. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 February 2018 21:56:37 | Al_Skiff | Changes to biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/record/529881529-warren-m-rankin |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:27:10 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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1993 457th BGA Roster, ABMC, MACR 10344 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 10344 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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