Douglas Nowling Woods

Military
media-45410.jpeg UPL 45410 SSGT Douglas Nowling Woods
Tail Gunner
Othello Smith & John Edelman Crews
388th BG - 561st BS

Object Number - UPL 45410 - SSGT Douglas Nowling Woods Tail Gunner Othello Smith & John Edelman Crews 388th BG - 561st BS

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Units served with

People

Aircraft

Missions

  • Date: 29 January 1945
A B-17 Flying Fortress (EP-E, serial number 42-31767) nicknamed "Our Gal Sal" of the 100th Bomb Group at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group. Written on slide casing: 'Our Gal Sal EP-E, 231767 at Mount Farm.'
  • Date: 31 December 1944
A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5725) nicknamed "This is IT!" of the 381st Bomb Group opens her bomb bay doors during a mission.
  • Date: 30 December 1944
  • Date: 28 December 1944

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

McCammon, Idaho 2 November 1924

Enlisted

Spokane, WA 21 August 1943

Other

388th BG Combat Tour

Knettishall Airfield, UK 16 November 1944 - 30 March 1945

Died

Eugene, OR 5 November 2009

Buried

Eugene, OR 8 November 2009 West Lawn Memorial Park Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, USA
Hermiston, OR

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.388bg.info/Personnel.html

Douglas Nowling Woods: Gallery (3 items)