Don E Echols

Military
media-16453.jpeg UPL 16453 Don E. Echols (left) and John E. Echols from E. Monte, California

Object Number - UPL 16453 - Don E. Echols (left) and John E. Echols from E. Monte, California

Flew 14 missions from 12 July to 25 August 1944. Was hit by flak. Hospitalized in England and US to December 1944. Brother John Echols flew as ball turret gunner on same crew.



AM w/ Oak Leaf Cluster/ PH

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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Born

Smackover, Arkansas 17 August 1925

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self

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