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First Lieutenant George A. Bridgeman Pilot B-24 Liberator
35 missions from 1 August 1944 to 6 January 1945. 1944:
August 1 - Melun; 2 - Montereau; 3 - Harnes; 4 - Rostock; 5 - Fallersleben; 6 - Kiel; 8 - Clastres; 16 - Magdeburg; 24 - Waggum; 25 - Liege;
September 11 - Magdeburg; 22 - Kassel; 25 - Coblenz; 26 - Hamm; 27 - Kassel;
October 2 - Hamm; 5 - Lippstadt; 6 - Hamburg; 7 - Zellerfeld; 22 - Hamm;
November 2 - Bielefeld; 4 - Merseburg; 5 - Karlsruhe; 6 - Minden; 16 - Eschweiler; 21 - Hamburg;
December 5 - Munster; 11 - Hanau; 24 - Ahrweiler; 25 - Hallschlag; 28 - Kaiserslautern; 30 - Mechenich; 1945: Jan 2 - Neuwied; 5 - Neunkirchen; 6 - Coblenz.
He flew all 35 missions before his 20th birthday, making him one of the youngest, possibly THE youngest, B-24 pilot to have completed 35 missions over Europe.
Awards: DFC, AM (5OLC), BS, WWII Victory, EAME.
Group
The 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 1 Mar 42 at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. On 15 May 42. the Group moved to Ft. Myers, Florida, to continue advanced flight training and also to fly antisubmarine patrols over the Gulf of Mexico. They...
Squadron
Military site : airfield
Planned as an RAF bomber airfield, Hardwick was used first by the 310th Bomb Group, equipped with B-25 Mitchells. B-24 Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group moved in briefly in March 1943, then returned in June 1943 remaining until the end of the war and...
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| Born | New Martinsville, West Virginia | 15 February 1925 |
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Son of George Benjamin and Georgia [Long] Bridgeman. |
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| Enlisted | Pittsburgh, PA | 13 February 1943 |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| Died | New Martinsville, WV | 10 April 2018 |
| Buried | Northview Cemetery New Martinsville, Wetzel County, WV | 13 April 2018 |
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Northview Cemetery |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 12 May 2021 08:55:27 | Al_Skiff | Changes to service number, biography, awards, events, unit associations and media associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/record/83866790/george-a-bridgeman-wwii-army-enlis... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 12 May 2021 01:37:33 | JeremyShepherd | Changes to events |
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https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/legacy/obituary.aspx?n=george-albert-b... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 09 November 2015 10:29:56 | Lucy May | Changes to biography, awards, place associations and mission associations |
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Associated missions from information in the Biography field. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 05 November 2015 12:20:53 | Lucy May | Changes to events |
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Corrected birth year from 1915 to 1925 following notification from George Albert Bridgeman's family. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:10:46 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self |
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