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Capt Lacey P. Morton :- DFC award card. 464BG.
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Capt Lacey P. Morton :- Air medal award card. 464BG.
Assigned to 778BS, 464BG, 15AF USAAF. Gilson crew. Failed to Return (FTR) Lugo, Italy in B-24 44-49710; A/C suffered direct flak hit on a 'milk run'. Starboard wing collapsing between engines; crashed Lugo, Italy 10-Apr-45, Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 13711
Awards: DFC, AM (2OLC), PH.
Service
People
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Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Pilot | 464th Bomb Group
Assigned to 778BS, 464BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Lugo, Italy in B-24 44-49710; A/C suffered direct flak hit on a 'milk run'. Starboard wing collapsing between engines; crashed Lugo, Italy 10-Apr-45, Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 13711.
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Units served with
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Group
A Consolidated History of the 464th Bomb Group
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Squadron
Established as a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber squadron in mid-1943, trained under Second Air Force. Deployed to Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO), October 1943, becoming a Fifteenth Air Force heavy bomb squadron, attacking enemy targets both in...
Aircraft
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B-24 Liberator
Assigned to 778BS, 464BG, 15AF USAAF. Suffered direct flak hit on a 'milk run'. Starboard wing collapsing between engines, pilot Col James Gilson, C/O of the 779th BS and nine other crew members were KIA [killed in action], one waist gunner was thrown...
Events
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Location |
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Born |
Little Rock, Pulaski County, AR |
June 1919 |
Son of David Alexander and Marie Almarine [Parkman] Morton.
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Based |
Pantanella |
1944 – 10 April 1945 |
Assigned to 778BS, 464BG, 15AF USAAF.
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Died |
Lugo, Italy |
10 April 1945 |
Failed to Return (FTR) Lugo, Italy in B-24 44-49710; A/C suffered direct flak hit on a 'milk run'. Starboard wing collapsing between engines; crashed Lugo, Italy 10-Apr-45, KIA MACR 13711
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Buried |
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1946 |
Re-Interred
Florence American Cemetery and Memorial
Plot B Row 2 Grave 8
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