Charles Miller
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Assigned to 563BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. ETD
Awards: WWII Victory, EAME.
Eugene Stanley Budzbanowski
Military
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"Crew of the 563rd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, beside the Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" 'Pegasus, Too'. England, 8 February 1944." Rear L-R: S/Sgt Eugene S Budzbanowski, 2Lt Joseph D McGovern Jr, 1Lt Charles B Miller, S/Sgt Richard E Ratley. Front L-R: S/Sgt Leslie G Thibodeau, T/Sgt John Ellis Lower, 2Lt Stephen W Mitrick, S/Sgt Bernard J Shaw, 2Lt Kenneth M Kelley.
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S/Sgt Eugene S Budzbanowski 563BS,388BG , 8AF.
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"Crew of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress 'Pegasus' at an airbase in England 13 Oct 1943." Rear L-R: 2Lt John T Brown, 1Lt Charles B Miller, 2Lt Joseph D McGovern, 2Lt Kenneth M Kelley. Front L-R: T/Sgt Cecil R Sinclair, S/Sgt Leslie G Thibodeau, T/Sgt John Ellis Lower, S/Sgt Bernard J Shaw, S/Sgt Eugene S Budzbanowski, S/Sgt Richard E Ratley.
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S/Sgt Eugene S. Budzbanowski :- Purple Heart award card. 388BG.
Assigned to 563BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. 31 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Warnemunde in B-17 42-107076; Hit by flak, crashed into sea seven miles SE of Nykobing, near Boto, Denmark. 9-Apr-44 Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 3656
Awards: AM, PH (OLC).
Service
People
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Vincent Sundstrom
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 9 April 1944 in B-17 #42107076. Killed in Action (KIA). DFC/ AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster
Units served with
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8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945. ... -
388th Bomb Group
Group
The 388th Bomb Group flew strategic bombing mission from Knettishall, Suffolk from June 1943 to the end of the war. During this time, though, detachments were sent to Fersfield, Norfolk to conduct Aphrodite missions. In these Aphrodite missions veteran... -
563rd Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-107076
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 14/2/44; Presque Is 6/3/44; Assigned 563BS/388BG Knettishall 9/3/44; Missing in Action Warnemunde 9/4/44 with Vince Sundstrom, Co-pilot: John Vlymen, ng-S/Sgt Manuel Weintraub, Bombardier: Alex Bruce, Flight engineer/top turret gunner:...
Missions
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8th Air Force 293
9 April 1944
Associated Place
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Knettishall
Military site : airfield
Knettishall was built to Class A standard for an American Bomb Group that would be bringing up to forty heavy bombers with them in three or four Squadrons. The 388th Bomb Group, which stayed at Knettishall for their entire service in the ETO, flew B-17...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Wisconsin, USA | 16 June 1921 |
| Enlisted | Chicago, IL | 1 October 1942 |
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Chicago, Illinois. |
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| Based | Knettishall | December 1943 – 9 April 1944 |
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Assigned to 563BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Died | 7 miles SE of Nykobing, Denmark | 9 April 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) Warnemunde in B-17 42-107076; Hit by flak, crashed into sea. 9-Apr-44 Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 3656 |
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| Buried | Wieck Ruegen, Germany | 27 May 1944 |
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Interred |
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| Buried | Rock Island National Cemetery Rock Island, Rock Island County, IL | 1948 |
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Re-Interred |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 13 December 2021 14:58:01 | Al_Skiff | Changes to biography, awards and events |
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https://www.fold3.com/record/702698033/budzbanowski-eugene-s-us-wwii-hos... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 08 July 2020 14:00:40 | millebr | Changes to middlename |
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Ancestry.com |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 16 April 2019 16:39:01 | Al_Skiff | Changes to nickname, service number, biography, events, person associations, unit associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/55704573 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:09:26 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3656 |
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