Dennis C Hart
Military ROLL OF HONOUR26-Jul-42 Asssigned as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner of B-17F 41-24563 [PU-H] "Garbage", 303BG/360BS at Alamogordo Field, Alamogordo, New Mexico. 16-Oct-42 Arrived at Molesworth, UK aboard "Garbage".
Shot down 3 January 1943 in B-17F 41-24620 'Snap! Crackle! Pop!' while serving as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner. Killed in Action (KIA).
Participated in 2 Operations. See Biography events.
Purple Heart
Connections
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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
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 3 January 1943
- Date: 30 December 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Assigned to Aircraft |
Alamogordo, NM 88310, USA | 26 July 1942 | Assigned as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner on B-17F 41-24563 "Garbage", 303BG/360BS at Alamogordo Field, Alamogordo, New Mexico. |
Other Arrival in UK |
Molesworth, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28, UK | 16 October 1942 | Arrived a t Molesworth, UK as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner of B-17F 41-24563 "Garbage", 303BG/360BS. |
Other Mission #1, TSGT Dennis C. Hart, w/B-17F 42-2973, 303BG/360BS |
Lorient, France | 30 December 1942 | Served as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner on B-17F 42-2973 "Iza Vailable", 303BG/360BS on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at Lorient, France. RTB OK. |
Other Mission #2, TSGT Dennis C. Hart, w/B-17F 41-24620, 303BG/360BS - KIA |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 3 January 1943 | Served as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner on B-17F 41-24620 "Snap! Crackle! Pop!", 303BG/360BS on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St. Nazaire, France. The aircraft was shot down and he was Killed in Action (KIA) |
Born |
Woods County, Oklahoma | ||
Buried |
Buried in the Brittany American Cemetery, Plot K, Row 14, Grave 9. | ||
Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Bois d'Escoublac, 44500 La Baule-Escoublac, France | 3 January 1943 | Killed when aircraft sustained damage from AA fire and enemy fighters and crashed into the Forest of Escoublac, France west of St. Nazaire. |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 26-Jan-2016, Added Mission #2 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, HIstorian, Mission Report of 3-Jan-43: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/009.pdf
Lee Cunningham 26-Jan-2016, Added Mission #1 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, HIstorian, Mission Report of 30-Dec-42: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/008.pdf
Lee Cunningham 26-Jan-2016. Added Arrival in UK event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Arthur I. Adams crew page: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-360-adams.html
Lee Cunningham 26-Jan-2016. Added Assigned to Aircraft event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Arthur I. Adams crew page: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-360-adams.html
Lee Cunningham 26-Jan-2016. Added initial assigment and airrvial info to Summary Biography; made connections to Aircraft and Missions per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Arthur I. Adams crew page: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-360-adams.html
Lee Cunningham 15-Jan-2015. Added SN, crew position and KIA event per MACR 15464; made connections to Place and Mission within existing website data; added crew position to biography per MACR 15464.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey p. 61, WWII Memorial web site, MACR 15464 / MACR 15464 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database