Donald Scott Beals
Military ROLL OF HONOURThe Times News October 7 2001
Assigned to 83FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. On 26-Jan-43 in P-38 41-7566 2nd Lt Donald S Beals was being transferred to Tafaroui, Algeria from Portreath, UK. He was flying with a flight of 9 others. The flight was to make a stop at Gibraltar but only 6 arrived. No traces of Lt Beal's aircraft or of the other two were ever found. He is listed as a Died Non-Battle (DNB).
Awards: PH.
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 83rd Fighter Squadron
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
17 April 1917 | Son of Harry Scott and Sadie Helen [Keith] Beals. | |
Enlisted |
19 January 1942 | Spokane, Washington | |
Died |
26 January 1943 | Believed to have been lost in the sea. Cause has not been determined. His remains have never been recovered. Non-Battle Death (NBD). | |
Other Commemorated |
Commemorated on the Wall of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery. | ||
Buried |
Memorialised Twin Falls Cemetery Twin Falls, Twin Falls County Idaho, USA. | ||
Based |
26 January 1943 | Assigned to 83FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. | |
Born |
Revisions
Added an association to the 78th FG listed in the "Summary biography" section.
Lee Cunningham 8-Feb-2015. Connections to Place and Aircraft MACR 3210
Lee Cunningham 8-Feb-2015. Verified SN , added NBD event and Biography per MACR 3210; made connections to Squadron and Place within existing website data; Added Commemorated event per American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) record.
ABMC, Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol 1 p. 67 by Bishop and Hey, / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list