William Hale Holcomb

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

The pilot, Lt. Holcomb and the entire crew of 10 weeks, crashed on take-off in B-17G (42-37744) at Bovingdon, England. They were on a weather recon mission bound for the eastern Atlantic.

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Units served with

92nd Bomb Group

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

No 1 Combat Crew Replacement Center

Unit Hierarchy: Unit
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Other

Aircraft

Places

Aerial photograph of Bovingdon airfield looking south, the technical site with four T2 hangars is on the left,30 April 1942. Photograph taken by No. 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, sortie number RAF/HLA/510. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Alto, Texas	29 June 1921
Enlisted	Lubbock, TX, USA	13 April 1942
Died	Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, UK	9 December 1943	In Bourne Wood
Buried	Jacksonville, TX 75766, USA		Resthaven Cemetery

Revisions

Date1 Apr 2016 12:47:57

ContributorLucy May

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Sources

Added information from duplicate record. Source:
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / The 25th BG (Rcn) by Notmsn Malaney, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I, p. 411

Also:
NARA Enlistment record: https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=50&tf=F&q=ho…
Findagrave record: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=holcomb&GSfn=will…;

Date27 Sep 2014 18:28:14

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / nephew