Chester Dickenson Makinster Jr
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Find A Grave Memorial# 56291999
Object Number - UPL 14236 - Chester Dickenson Makinster
Involved in a mid-air collision during form-up on a mission to Brunswick, GA on 29 Mar 1944 and crashed at Henham, Suffolk in B-24H #41-110033. Killed in Action (KIA).
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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: Arizona Rambler
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Kelso, WA, USA | 11 April 1919 | |
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Died |
29 March 1944 | KIA when, on 29 March 1944, two B24s collided over Henham, a few miles from Halesworth airfield. 9 Crew of the 41-110033 died, and 7 of the 41-8590. During the rescue operations the bomb load of one Liberators exploded, killing 6 men from Halesworth. | |
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Buried |
Plot F Row 4 Grave 17 |
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Sources
Find A Grave Memorial# 56291999
American Battle Monuments Commission
56thfightergroup.co.uk
http://eastangliamemorials.blogspot.co.uk/
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Sources
ABMC, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / ABMC/ MACR 9809 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
