Fred Roy Gilbert
Military
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UPL 52150
Lt. Alfred Rabo's crew, 422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group. Taken 23 November, 1942, in front of B-17 41-24615 "Target For Tonite".
Top row, left to right: Alfred Rabo (Pilot), Fred Gilbert (Co-Pilot), Victor Prendinger (Navigator), Mike Berkowitz (Bombardier, with dig), William A Jones (Tail Gunner)
Bottom row, left to right; Edmund Gates (Flight Engineer), Charles Peterson (Ball Turret Gunner), "Johnson" (Waist Gunner), Thomas Kon (Radio Operator), Henry Kwaseske (Waist Gunner)
Top row, left to right: Alfred Rabo (Pilot), Fred Gilbert (Co-Pilot), Victor Prendinger (Navigator), Mike Berkowitz (Bombardier, with dig), William A Jones (Tail Gunner)
Bottom row, left to right; Edmund Gates (Flight Engineer), Charles Peterson (Ball Turret Gunner), "Johnson" (Waist Gunner), Thomas Kon (Radio Operator), Henry Kwaseske (Waist Gunner)
Photograph taken from Fold3, as well as crew positions in photo
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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
- Unit Hierarchy: Command
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16022486 / O-726112
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18053866
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 482nd Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron 812th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13038122
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator, Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33076876
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner / Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12046208 / O-87234
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Navigator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Grafton Undermud
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Chicago, Illinois, USA | 15 December 1919 | |
Enlisted |
Los Angeles, California, USA | 5 November 1941 | Enlisted as an Aviation Cadet with the serial number 19062156 |
Died |
Spokane, Washington, USA | 16 March 2013 | |
Los Angeles, California, USA | Moved at the age of three | ||
Based Assigned to the 305th Bomb Group |
Chelveston | Assigned to the 305th Bomb Group | |
Great Falls, Montana, USA | Upon completion of his tour, he was assigned to the 5th Ferry Group at Great Falls Army Air Base, in Montana. He would go on to meet his wife here. | ||
Salina, Kansas, USA | At the end of the war, assigned to Strategic Air Command at Smoky Hill Air Force Base, Salina, Kansas, before being discharged from the Air Force. |
Revisions
ContributorCastleBren
Changes
Sources
Ancestry.com records
Legacy.com obituary
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/spokesman/name/fred-gilbert-obitua…
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
305th Bomb Group Roster / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia