Wilmer Henry Clay Bassett
Military
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UPL 36688
Marriage of Willard R. Beaumont (age 23) and Lillian Lynette Haering (Age 20) with Vera, Lynn, Beau, and Bill Bassett. January 3, 1945.
Willard Raymond Beaumont
Corrected typo in caption.
Prisoner of War (POW)/ crashed on 8/1/43 while TDY to 9th AF for Ploesti Raid in B-24 'Pudgy' 42-40613 Prisoner of War (POW) in Rumania.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Pudgy
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
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Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania | 6 June 1918 | Son of Henry Clay and Florence Amelia [Dokenwadel] Bassett |
Enlisted |
Camp Lee, VA | 28 October 1941 | |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Romania | 1 August 1943 | Prisoner of War (POW). Romania. |
Other Forced landing POW |
Vicinity Ploesti | 1 August 1943 | A/C shot up by enemy fighters, force landed and captured. 1-Aug-43 POW. MACR 333 |
Died |
Newtown Square, PA | 26 January 1994 | |
Based |
Hardwick | 1 August 1943 | Assigned to 330BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. TDY to 9AF for Ploesti raid from Bengazi. |
Buried |
Philadelphia Memorial Park, Frazer, PA | Interred Philadelphia Memorial Park Frazer, Chester County, PA |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 333