David Frank Holliman
Military ROLL OF HONOURRiley F Bissonette son.
Shot down 20 December 1943 in B-17 #42-31084. Killed in Action (KIA).
AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster
Flew his first 3 missions (plus 3 aborts) as a waist gunner. Flew the remainder of his tour as Flight Engineer/Top Turret Gunner
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- Date: 13 November 1943
- Date: 11 November 1943
- Date: 10 October 1943
- Date: 9 October 1943
- Date: 8 October 1943
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Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Enlisted |
23 May 1942 | Fort McPherson | |
Born |
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Buried |
Tablets of The Missing Burial Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial • Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England | ||
Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
20 December 1943 | Flak at the Target area was very intense and every plane suffered battle damage. Lt. Eccleston, in a/c 42-31084, was lost due to this flak; and, when last seen at 1212 hours, he was going down with his bomb bay doors open and on fire. | |
Born |
Revisions
Added " / " in the "Role/job" field as a separator to aid readability.
Added a "-" to the A/C tail # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.
ABMC; MACR 3154 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3154 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database