Simer Elfving Rylander

Military
media-56686.jpeg UPL 56686 Barraclough crew, 490BG

Rear L-R: T/Sgt Glen Potter (E), Bennie Burrows (B), Ellis Beymer (N), Stanley Barron Jr (CP), Robert Barraclough (P), T/Sgt Harold Perrine (RO).

Front L-R: S/Sgt's Virgil Brockel (BTG), Elmer Rylander (NTG), Paul Romeo (TTG), Gordon Manveg (TG).

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Object Number - UPL 56686 - Barraclough crew, 490BG Rear L-R: T/Sgt Glen Potter (E), Bennie Burrows (B), Ellis Beymer (N), Stanley Barron Jr (CP), Robert Barraclough (P),...

Assigned to 851BS, 490BG, 8AF USAAF. Barraclough crew. ETD





Awards: AM (4OLC), WWII Victory, EAME (2 x Battle Stars).

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Units served with

The insignia of the 490th Bomb Group.

490th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Robert Arthur Barraclough

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 490th Bomb Group 851st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13030849 / O-789124
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Places

Eye, home of the 490th Bomb Group, photographed from the air. Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'Eye from air.'

Eye

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Brome

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Knox County, IL 13 August 1918 Son of Carl Johan Elfving and Lydia Irene [Ekl] Rylander.

Enlisted

Peoria, IL 19 March 1942 Peoria, Illinois

Died

Rock Island, IL 13 April 1994

Buried

Oneida Cemetery Oneida, Knox County, IL 16 April 1994 Oneida Cemetery Oneida, Knox County, Illinois

Based

Eye Assigned to 851BS, 490BG, 8AF USAAF.

Revisions

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Sources

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https://www.fold3.com/record/623768315/simer-rylander-1918-veterans-aff…
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150073586/simer-e-rylander

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490th Bomb Group Unit Personnel / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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