Military
Crew #665 Jessie H. McKnight Crew B-24J1-FO #42-95617 "Jennie" T9-I Standing Left to Right: Donald Hemingway (CP), Jessie H. McKnight (P), Edwin Martin (N) Kneeling Left to Right: Jack Kasper (FE), Glenn Hill (NG), Ben Buck (WG), Gerald Alport (WG), Frank Bostwick (TG), Ben Brown (R/O) Completed a 34 mission tour: 6 October 1944 - 31 March 1945
Military | Major | Piot | 466th Bomb Group
Flew missions from 06 October 1944-31 March 1945. Crew #665. Completed 34 missions. Flew A/C B-24J-140-CO 42-110162 'Parson's Chariot' and A/C B-24J-160-CO 44-40361.
Air Medal W/Oak Leaf Cluster
Group
The 466th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Attlebridge, Norfolk, during the last year of the war in Europe. The Group flew 232 missions in the course of the year and celebrated the 100th one by inviting local people onto the base to mark the...
Squadron
Military site : airfield
Attlebridge was constructed for RAF use and completed to that standard in 1942. However, with news that it was to be assigned to the American Air Force, the runways were extended and additional hardstandings and outbuildings constructed for the heavy...
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Chicago, IL, USA | 6 April 1925 |
| Enlisted | May 1943 | |
| 466th BG Combat Tour | Attlebridge, Norwich, Norfolk NR9, UK | 6 October 1944 – 5 April 1945 |
| Honorably Discharged | Madison, WI, USA | 15 October 1945 |
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Truax AAF |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 23 June 2016 03:10:15 | 466thHistorian | Changes to events |
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"Second Air Division" - page 165 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 December 2014 03:29:02 | 466thHistorian | Changes to highest rank, role, person associations, unit associations and place associations |
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466th BG Historian |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:11:19 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit roster in the book 'Attlebridge Arsenal' by Wassom & Brassford, page 343 & SECOND AIR DIVISION by Turner Publishing Company, D790.A2S45, 1998, page 195 |
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