Cecil Adrian Pruiett

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

BTG, Schrader Crew. 381st BG, 533rd BS, 8th AF. Shot down 25 June 1943 in B-17 #42-30027. Mission #3 to Hamburg, Germany. MACR 162. The aircraft crashed into the sea. His body was never recovered. Killed in Action (KIA). Recorded on the Tablets of the Missing and Buried at sea in Cambridge AMC.

Whitehall, IL

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The insignia of the 381st Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 6862311
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner; Flight Engineer
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 14124291
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-412961 (16026208)
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32286796
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16126272
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron

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Event Location Date Description

Born

White Hall, Illinois, USA 9 April 1922

Enlisted

East St Louis, IL, USA 18 September 1940

Other

Killed in Action

Bensersiel, Germany 25 June 1943

Based

Ridgewell 25 June 1943

Buried

Tablets of the Missing and Buried at Sea

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All entries by ARowe95 are from:
381st BGMA
533rd Bomb Squadron War Diary
242nd Medical Detachment Diary
MACR 162
Fold.3
Ancestry.com
Find-A-Grave
NARA Enlistment records
They Came from Over the Pond - David Osborne
The Might Men of the 381st - James Good Brown
Triumphant We Fly - Ken Stone

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381st Bomb Group Memorial Association, March 1999; MACR 162 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 162 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database