Chester L Phillips Jr
Military ROLL OF HONOURAssigned to 67BS, 44BG, 8AF USAAF. Approximately 20 combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Kiel, Germany in B-24 41-23807 'Little Beaver'; hit by flak twice in rear fuselage, also one engine and a final burst hit the cockpit turning it into an inferno 14-May-43. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 2748
Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 67th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38057048 / O-726980
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 67th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12055743
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 67th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 20443081
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 67th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37087575
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Despatcher, Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 67th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 20641515
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Little Beaver
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 67th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Ardennes American Cemetery, Liege, Belgium
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Pathway
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Greenville, Texas, USA | 26 January 1918 | Son of Chester L Sr and Lucia D [Taggart] Phillips. |
Enlisted |
Dallas. TX | 25 November 1940 | Dallas, Texas |
Died |
Kiel, Germany | 14 May 1943 | Failed to Return (FTR) Kiel, Germany in B-24 41-23807 'Little Beaver'; Shot down 14-May-43. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 2748 |
Buried |
Re-Interred Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial Neupre, Belgium Plot D Row 12 Grave 2 | ||
Based Killed in Action (KIA) |
Shipdham | 14 May 1943 | Assigned to 67BS, 44BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Buried |
Forest Park Cemetery, Greenville, Hunt County, TX | Memorialised Forest Park Cemetery Greenville, Hunt County, Texas |
Revisions
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https://www.fold3.com/image/310952982
https://www.fold3.com/record/84727412-chester-l-phillips-jr
https://www.fold3.com/record/529855740-chester-l-j-phillips
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14438583/chester-l-phillips
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56360295/chester-l_-phillips
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2748 / MACR 2748, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol 1 by Bishop & Hey p. 119, National WWII Memorial, ABMC / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database