Archie Brazer
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 92nd Bomb Group Fame's Favoured Few
Assigned to 326BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. Reg Hammond crew. ETD
Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military
Assigned to 326BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. 30 x missions. Hit trees on Sidown Hill in B-17 44-8436 and crashed. Sole survivor from crash. 5-May-45. Returned to Duty (RTD)
Awards: AM, PH, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 92nd Bomb Group Fame's Favoured Few
Assigned to 326BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. Reg Hammond crew. ETD
Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 92nd Bomb Group Fame's Favoured Few
Assigned to 326BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. 35 x missions. Hit trees on Sidown Hill in B-17 44-8436 and crashed. 5-May-45. Killed in Action (KIA)
Awards: DFC, AM(OLC), PH.
Military | Flight Officer | Bombardier/ Navigator | 92nd Bomb Group Fame's Favoured Few
Assigned to 326BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. Reg Hammond crew. Wounded in action on 28-Mar-45 in B-17 43-38574 'Russian Lullaby', but continued with his crew to the target and completed the bomb run despite his head wound. ETD
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Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 92nd Bomb Group Fame's Favoured Few
Assigned to 326BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. 33 x missions. Hit trees on Sidown Hill in B-17 44-8436 and crashed. 5-May-45. Killed in Action (KIA)
Awards: AM (3OLC), PH.
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Group
The 92nd Group sometime after arrivial in the UK converted to the role of in-theater combat crew indocrination and training. For this role, the Group traded its B-17F complement and obtained the B-17E, mostly from the 97th BG which was departing for...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 18/8/44; Hunter 27/8/44; Grenier 8/9/44; Assigned 407BS/92BG [PY-P] Podington 24/9/44; transferred 326/92BG; [JW-P] damaged in taxi accident with Robert O Divver 7/6/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 31/5/46. RUSSIAN LULLABY.
B-17 Flying Fortress
On May 5th 1945, just three days before the end of World War II, seven young men climbed into a B-17 from 326th Squadron and took off from RAF Podington. 1st Lt Reginald Hammond, 1st Lt Robert Sprout, 2nd Lt William J Dutton, T/Sgt Jacob Buikema, S/Sgt...
Military site : airfield
Built originally to accommodate two RAF bomber squadrons, the first USAAF unit to occupy the base was the 15th Bomb Squadron in September 1942. Podington was then used as a satellite for nearby Chelveston. Work to lengthen the runways, although this...
Crash site
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Born | Chicago, IL | 2 January 1924 |
Son of the late Michael J and Catherine [Picerno] Nitti. |
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Enlisted | Chicago, IL | 20 November 1942 |
Based | Podington | 1944 – May 1945 |
Assigned to 326BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Survived fatal crash | Sidown Hill, Hampshire | 5 May 1945 |
Hit trees on Sidown Hill in B-17 44-8436 and crashed. Sole survivor from crash. 5-May-45. Returned to Duty (RTD) |
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Died | Hillside, IL | 21 January 2018 |
Buried | Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery, Hillside, IL | February 2018 |
Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery |
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06 February 2020 18:21:39 | Al_Skiff | Changes to biography and events |
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06 February 2020 13:37:19 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, biography, awards and events |
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09 November 2018 13:29:12 | Al_Skiff | Created entry with surname, middlename, firstname, nickname, nationality, service number, highest rank, role, biography, events, person associations, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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