Donald Vernon Chubb
Military ROLL OF HONOURChester Country Hall of Heroes article by Don Wambold: http://webapps.chesco.org/heroes/chubb/mary_chubb.htm
Assigned to the 547th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), per AAF Station 106 Special Orders #72 dated 16 April 1944. Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 #42-97081. Ditched, Killed in Action (KIA)/Missing in Action (MIA). His sister Mary was with the 181st Medical Division in England and was killed in a plane crash on 14 June 1944.
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 0-754409
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Service Numbers: N-759572
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Nurse
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11093338
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17128306
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-699180
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hell's Messenger
- Unit: 2nd Strategic Air Depot 364th Fighter Group 544th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 457th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Jamaica Mary
- Unit: 547th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Grafton Undermud
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Died Missing in Action (MIA) |
English Channel | 8 May 1944 | Damaged by flak, ditched in the English Channel. 8 MIA, 2 Rescued. MACR 4812 |
Born |
Doylestown, Pennsylvania | ||
Other Memorialized |
Colleville-sur-Mer, France | Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France: Tablets of the Missing |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4812, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=…