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Assigned 32BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF. Suffered mechanical failure on Linz mission 25-Nov-44; Lost 2 x engines enroute to target. After aborting, crashed Iesi due to ground haze and late lighting of flare path; MACR 7536. Killed in Action (KIA)
Awards: PH.
Military | Captain | Pilot | 301st Bomb Group
Assigned 32BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF. 26 x combat missions. Suffered mechanical failure on Linz mission 25-Nov-44; crashed Iesi due to ground haze and late lighting of flare path; Badly injured, both legs broken and with most of his upper torso badly burnt...
Group
Activated 3-February-1942 at Geiger Field, Washington and equipped with B-17s. On 27-May-1942 the ground unit moved to Alamogordo Army Air Field, New Mexico, and the aircraft went to Muroc Army Air Field (now Edwards Air Force Base), California for...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Dallas 10/5/44; Langley 27/6/44; Dow Fd 18/7/44; Assigned 32BS/301BG as PFF Lucera 30/7/44; Mech failure on Linz mission 25/11/44 with Vernon O Johnson, Beauford F Boswell, Edward D Molloy, Francis J Hanley, Moses D Stone, Melvin R Humphrey,...
Military site : airfield
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| Born | Ong, Clay County, Nebraska | 10 June 1921 |
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Son of Ralph and Ethel May [Fisher] Boswell. |
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| Enlisted | Los Angeles, CA | 18 August 1942 |
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Los Angeles, California |
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| Based | Lucera | 1944 – 25 November 1944 |
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Assigned 32BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF. |
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| Died | Iesi, Italy | 25 November 1944 |
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Suffered mechanical failure on Linz mission 25-Nov-44; crashed Iesi due to ground haze and late lighting of flare path; MACR 7536. Killed in Action (KIA) |
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| Buried | Ong cemetery, Ong, Nebraska | 1948 |
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Re-Interred |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 27 April 2019 09:07:01 | Al_Skiff | Created entry with surname, middlename, firstname, nationality, service number, highest rank, role, biography, events, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/29429751 |
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