Milton Capps
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 446th Bomb Group
Crashed N of Hanover, GR on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944 in B-24J #42-100231. KIA.
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Military
Crashed N of Hanover, GR on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944 in B-24J #42-100231. KIA.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 446th Bomb Group
Crashed N of Hanover, GR on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944 in B-24J #42-100231. KIA.
Military | 446th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 446th Bomb Group
Crashed N of Hanover, GR on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944 in B-24J #42-100231. KIA.
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 446th Bomb Group
Crashed N of Hanover, GR on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944 in B-24J #42-100231. Killed in Action (KIA).
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 446th Bomb Group
Crashed N of Hanover, GR on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944 in B-24J #42-100231. KIA.
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 446th Bomb Group
Crashed N of Hanover, GR on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944 in B-24J #42-100231. KIA.
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 446th Bomb Group
Crashed N of Hanover, Germany on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944 in B-24J 42-100231.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 446th Bomb Group
Crashed N of Hanover, GR on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944 in B-24J #42-100231. KIA.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 446th Bomb Group
Crashed N of Hanover, GR on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944 in B-24J #42-100231. KIA.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator, Radio Operator Gunner | 446th Bomb Group
Crashed N of Hanover, GR on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944 in B-24J #42-100231. KIA.
Group
The 446th Bomb Group, who came to be known as "the Bungay Buckaroos" after the name of their Suffolk base, flew B-24 Liberators on strategic, support and interdictory missions over Europe. The Group led the Eighth Air Force and 2nd Bomb Division on the...
Squadron
B-24 Liberator
8 March 1944
The VKF ballbearing factory at Berlin/Erkner is the primary target for 623 heavy bombers despatched by all three Air Divisions. Fighter opposition and anti-aircraft fire are intense. There are so many formation attacking that some divert to other...
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Died | 8 March 1944 | |
Buried | Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St Louis, Missouri |
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21 January 2019 02:39:00 | Racc00n | Changes to nickname |
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Updating to include nickname. |
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20 September 2016 17:27:13 | Racc00n | Changes to person associations |
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Crewmembers of B-24 J 42-100231 on March 8, 1944 |
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20 September 2016 16:07:59 | Racc00n | Changes to place associations |
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Interred in common grave with crewmembers of the two planes which went down together. |
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13 September 2016 18:09:42 | Racc00n | Changes to service number, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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Missing Air Crew Report dated 10 March 1944 |
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27 September 2014 18:08:06 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces; The History of the 446th Bomb Group, pg 69 |