Military
Killed in Action (KIA) in B-17F 41-24512 'Rose O' Day', 91BG/322BS while serving as Bombardier. The aircraft was attacke repeatedly by German fighters and seen to have the #2 engine on fire. The surviving crew were ordered to bale out over the southern tip of Texal Island, Holland, but many came down in the sea and were lost. The aircraft crashed into North Sea just west of the tip of Texel Island, Holland.
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart
Group
The 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated at Harding Field, Louisiana on 15-April-1942 and went to MacDill Field, Florida for the first phase of training from 16-May-1942 to 25-June-1942. The Group was then assigned to 2nd Air Force at Walla...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-N] Bangor 1-Sep-42; Bassingbourn 29-Sep-42; Missing in Action (MIA) 7+m Hamm 4-Mar-43. Aircraft sustained repeated attacks by fighters and crashed into the North Sea just of the southern tip of Texel Island, Holland. The crew...
4 March 1943
After several weather-caused aborted attempts in attacking the marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany, the 8th Air Force is finally successful in attacking this target. A total of 71 B-17s are despatched: 91BG (20); 303BG (18); 305BG (12) amd 306BG (21)....
Military site : airfield
Now home to a museum all about the aifield and its USAAF residents (http://www.towermuseumbassingbourn.co.uk/) , Bassingbourn opened in 1938 as part of the RAF's pre-war expansion programme. The RAF continued to use it until late in 1942 when its long...
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Dallas County, Texas | |
| Killed in Action (KIA) | Texel, Netherlands | 4 March 1943 |
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Killed when aircraft was attacked by German fighters and crashed into the sea just west of the tip of Texel Island, Holland. His remains have never been recovered. |
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| Commemorated | Netherlands American Cemetery, AM Begraafplaats 1, 6269 NA Margraten | 1945 |
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Commemorated on the Wall of the Missing, Netherlands American Cemetery |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 24 June 2015 19:50:56 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to biography, awards, events, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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Lee Cunningham 24-Jun-2015. Added Decorations and Commemorated event per American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) records; made connections to Place, Aircraft and Mission within existing website data; Added KIA event per MACR 3721; Edited SUmmay Biography with loss detail and converted dates to military-style signification per "Losses of the 8th & 9th AIr Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:28:08 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop and Hey, pp. 87-88, MACR 3721 |
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