William Vincent Tumelavich

Military
media-54504.jpeg UPL 54504 S/Sgt William V Tumelavich, 445BG

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Object Number - UPL 54504 - S/Sgt William V Tumelavich, 445BG

Assigned to 703BS, 455BG, 8AF USAAF. 31 x combat missions. ETD





Awards: AM (5OLC), WWII Victory, EAME (3 x Battle Stars).

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51681) of the 453rd Bomb Group flies in formation with a fellow Liberator of the 453rd and and a pathfinder Liberator of the 445th Bomb Group. Image via Alan Rowsell.

445th Bomb Group

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

People

John P Burrington

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group

Robert Earl Conrad

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 701st Bomb Squadron 703rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33507972 / O-2064220
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Navigator

George James Gerstner

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 703rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11102122
  • Highest Rank: Corporal
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

John R Hannigan

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 703rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12165374
  • Highest Rank: Corporal

Cecil P Howe

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 703rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37534041
  • Highest Rank: Corporal

Aircraft

42-50692

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 703rd Bomb Squadron

42-50729

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 703rd Bomb Squadron

Missions

781

  • Date: 5 January 1945

776

  • Date: 2 January 1945

774

  • Date: 1 January 1945
A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5725) nicknamed "This is IT!" of the 381st Bomb Group opens her bomb bay doors during a mission.

770

  • Date: 30 December 1944

766

  • Date: 28 December 1944

Places

Signal Squares on the airfield at Tibenham, B-24 Liberators of the 398th Bomb Group are visible in the background. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Tibenham Signal Squares.'

Tibenham

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Tivetshall

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Carbondale, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA 14 July 1923 Son of John and Anna [Bartasavage] Tumelavich.

Other

Drafted

30 June 1942

Enlisted

Married

New Cumberland, PA 17070, USA 17 June 1943 New Cumberland, Pennsylvania

Other

In military service in USA

United States 17 June 1943 - 23 September 1944

Based

Tibenham 24 September 1944 - 23 May 1945 Assigned to 703BS, 455BG, 8AF USAAF.

Other

In military service in USA

United States 24 March 1945 - 19 October 1945

Other

Left Military Service

Las Vegas, NV, USA 19 October 1945

Died

Hopewell, NJ 7 February 2005

Buried

Cumberland County Veterans Cemetery Bridgeton, Cumberland County, NJ 11 February 2005 Cumberland County Veterans Cemetery Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey

Revisions

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ContributorAl_Skiff
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Sources

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/232333457/william-tumelavich

Date
ContributorEmily
Changes
Sources

List of crewmembers who flew with Robert E Conrad

US Veteran's Gravesites via Ancestry

Draft Registration Card via Ancestry

Veteran's Pension Application via Ancestry

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Birsic, SO3265 12 Oct 44 & Page 428 in the book 2ND AIR DIVISIONby Turner Publishing Company, 1998 edition (D790.A2S45) / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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Object number: UPL 54504 - S/Sgt William V Tumelavich, 445BG