Robert Taylor
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 601BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. 37 x combat missions. ETD
Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Military
Assigned to 601BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. 35 x combat missions. ETD
Awards: AM (5OLC), AFCM, WWII Victory, EAME (3 x Battle Stars).
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 601BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. 37 x combat missions. ETD
Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
Group
The 398th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire on strategic bombing raids over Germany. The Group switched focus in the days before D-Day, when they targeted enemy positions on the Cherbourg peninsula. When the Allies...
Squadron
Military site : airfield
Built during 1942-43, Nuthampstead was the nearest Eighth Air Force heavy bomber base to London. It had three concrete runways, 50 loop hardstandings and two dispersed T2 hangars. It was first occupied from September 1943 to April 1944 by the 55th...
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Born | Velva North Dakota | 23 May 1925 |
Son of Anton Peter and Anna Marie Aasen. |
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Training | Alexandria AAF, LA | February 1943 |
Completed training at Alexandria AAF, Louisiana. |
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Based | Nuthampstead | 1944 – 1944 |
Assigned to 601BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Died | Los Altos, CA | 21 October 2011 |
Donald Raymond Aasen, "Don", May 23, 1925 - October 21, 2011, resident of Los Altos, died peacefully in Los Altos on October 21, 2011. He was preceded in death by his first wife Ernestine Willidean Johnson with whom he had two sons. He is also survived by his wife of 48 years, Olga Aasen; three daughters; thirteen grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his four brothers Ernest, Mahlon, Marvin, and Gordon. Don was born in Velva, North Dakota, on May 23, 1925. His early education was in a simple one-room schoolhouse and he later graduated from Minot High School before enlisting in the Air Force in 1943. He served during World War II as a tail gunner on the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, completing 35 missions over Germany. After flight schools in Texas and Nevada, he served in the Korean War as a pilot and flew the first generation of jet planes, the F-84 Thunderjet, carrying out 100 missions. He concluded his military career at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona as a jet fighter pilot instructor in the first supersonic jet, the F-100 Super Sabre. He retired from the USAF in 1965, achieving the rank of Major and receiving the Commendation Medal while serving as operations officer of his squadron. |
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Buried | Gate Of Heaven Catholic Cemetery Los Altos, Santa Clara County, CA | 28 October 2011 |
Gate Of Heaven Catholic Cemetery |
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15 February 2022 10:27:18 | Al_Skiff | Changes to nickname, service number, biography, awards, events, person associations and unit associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/670528800 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
14 February 2022 15:50:33 | Amanda | Changes to role and place associations |
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398th |
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14 February 2022 15:45:33 | Amanda | Changes to events |
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99054582/donald-raymond-aasen |
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14 February 2022 15:14:42 | Amanda | Changes to events |
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Ancestry |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
14 February 2022 14:50:12 | Amanda | Changes to media associations |
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398th.org |
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09 June 2016 13:24:07 | Wex_AdamSterecki | Changes to middlename |
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http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.aspx?pid=154253449 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:07:40 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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398th History / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |