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.
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George Albert Bridgeman
Military
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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.
Service
Units served with
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93rd Bomb Group
Group
93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 1-March-1942 at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. On 15-May-1942 the Group moved to Ft. Myers, Florida to continue advanced flight training and also to fly anti-submarine patrols over the Gulf of Mexico; they... -
409th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Associated Place
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Hardwick
Military site : airfield
Planned as an RAF bomber airfield, Hardwick was used first by the 310th Bomb Group, equipped with B-25 Mitchells. In December 1943, the B-24 Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group moved in, and remained until the end of the war, flying over 330 missions....
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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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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Revisions
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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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