Eugene Albers
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
Daniel Blaine Harris
Military
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Daniel Blaine Harris Pilot Crew #717 466th BG - 787th BS Shot down on his 4th mission, 8 April 1944. POW
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MACR 3840 42-29365 466th BG | 787th BS 08 Apr 1944
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29365, Prisoner of War (POW).
Retired from a 31 year career in the USAF with the rank of Colonel.
Service
People
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Charles Bidgood
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29365, Prisoner of War (POW). POW -
Robert Boebel
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29365, Prisoner of War (POW). POW -
John Bushing
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Flight Engineer/Top Turret Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29365, Prisoner of War (POW). POW -
Clement Ehmet
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Radio Operator | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29365, Prisoner of War (POW). POW -
Charles Jones
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Radio Operator | 466th Bomb Group
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Lyndle Newman
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Tail Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29365, Prisoner of War (POW). POW -
Rupert Pulliam
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Ball Turret Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29365, Prisoner of War (POW). POW http://www.tnmagazine.org/service-before-self/ -
Eldon Slager
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Right Waist Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 41-29365. Killed in Action (KIA). -
Thomas Styslinger
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29365, Prisoner of War (POW). POW
Units served with
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466th Bomb Group
Group
The 466th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Attlebridge, Norfolk, during the last year of the war in Europe. The Group flew 232 missions in the course of the year and celebrated the 100th one by inviting local people onto the base to mark the... -
787th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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41-29365
B-24 Liberator
Mission 291 350 B-24s are dispatched to aviation industry targets in Brunswick 1944-04-08 - MACR #: 3840 Notes:29365 (466th BG, 787th BS) lost Apr 8, 1944. MACR 3840
Missions
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8th Air Force 273
22 March 1944
The German aviation industries at Oraneinburg and Basdorf were the intended primary target for this mission but dense cloud cover prevented the attack on these targets. The secondary target of Berlin, Germany and surrounding Targets of Opportunity (TOs... -
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2 August 1944
Associated Place
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Attlebridge
Military site : airfield
Attlebridge was constructed for RAF use and completed to that standard in 1942. However, with news that it was to be assigned to the American Air Force, the runways were extended and additional hardstandings and outbuildings constructed for the heavy...
Events
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| Born | Bancroft, Idaho, USA | 22 December 1922 |
| Lived in | Soda Springs, ID 83276, USA | 1942 |
| Shot Down | in the vicinity of Vorsfelde, Wolfsburg, Germany | 8 April 1944 |
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Shot down by ME-109's. Harris escaped the burning aircraft by bailing out through the bomb bay. |
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| Prisoner of War (POW) | Barth, Germany | 15 April 1944 |
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Stalag Luft I |
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| Died | Soda Springs, ID 83276, USA | 30 April 2001 |
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Idaho State Journal, Thursday, 05/03/01 SODA SPRINGS — Daniel Blaine Harris, 78, of Soda Springs, passed away Monday, April 30, 2001, at his home. He was born September 22, 1922, in Davisville, Idaho, the son of Franklin W. and Florence Pearl Balls Harris. He married Melva Call June 30, 1942, in the Logan, Utah LDS Temple. He was raised and educated in Thatcher and Soda Springs, graduating from Soda Springs High School. He received a master's in electronics from the Air Force Institute of Technology. He served in the USAF as a combat pilot (World War II), nuclear researcher, military airlift commander (Vietnam War), and Defense intelligence officer for the Pentagon. He was stationed at military bases around the world. He was also a POW in Germany for 13 months. When he retired after 31 years of service, he held the rank of colonel. He enjoyed singing, camping, hunting, fishing, flying and traveling with his family. He is survived by his wife, Melva, of Soda Springs; and four daughters, Geri Bateman, Arcata, Calif., Diana Johnson, Rexburg, Idaho, JoAnn Stewart, Mesa, Ariz., Holly Stephenson, Vienna, Va.; also 20 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren; one brother and sister, LaPhene (Don) Harris and Marye Paulsen of Utah. He was preceded in death by a son, Franklin Willard Harris, a daughter, Melva Jean Harris, and two brothers, Berdean and Denton Harris. |
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| Buried | Soda Springs, ID 83276, USA | 5 May 2001 |
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Fairview Cemetery |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 15 May 2020 21:14:17 | jmoore43 | Changes to highest rank |
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Updated his rank per info from his obit. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 15 May 2020 21:12:45 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "-" to the A/C serial # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 12 January 2016 22:27:36 | 466thHistorian | Changes to middlename, service number, biography, events, person associations, place associations, mission associations and media associations |
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466th BG HIstorian |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:06:51 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3840 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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