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Capt George R Wall, 464BG.
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Capt George R Wall :- DFC award card. 464BG.
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Capt George R Wall :- DFC award card. 464BG.
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Capt George R Wall :- 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 (OLC), AM (3OLC), 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 |
Akron, Summit County, OH |
18 October 1917 |
Son of Edwin A and Agnes Wall.
Husband to Mildred Elizabeth Parks.
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Enlisted |
Charlotte, NC |
28 March 1942 |
Charlotte, North Carolina
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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 |
Memorial Park Cemetery
Salisbury, Rowan County, NC |
1948 |
Re-Interred
Memorial Park Cemetery
Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina
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