Gerald Weinberg
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
All information correct as on Roll of Honor board
Object Number - UPL 13253 - 93rd Bomb Group Roll of Honor at Hardwick Airfield Memorial Museum.
TSgt. Gerald Weinberg was a B-24D radio operator the 8th Air Force, the 93rd Bomb Group, and the 328th Bomb Squadron, detached (TDY) to The 9th Air Force, at Benghazi, Libya, for the Ploesti bombing mission in the B-24D, 42-40608, The Vulgar Virgin. He and his crew were interned after his pilot, Lt. Claude Turner, landed at Chorlu, Turkey, with his damaged bomber, unable to fly to his home base after leaving Romania. (INT) 1 Aug 1943 . Later Weinberg and the rest of his crewmen were released by the Turks and returned to service (RTS) back in the U.K.
Awards : DFC/ AM/ PH
SSgt. Gerald Weinberg was later killed in action (KIA) in an aircraft landing accident in the B-24D, 42-40246, Thundermug. 30 October 1943
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
Events
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Other Interned |
1 August 1943 | Interned in Chorlu, Turkey after the Ploesti mission, unable to fly to home base at Benghazi. Libya. 1 Aug 43. | |
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Other Killed in action |
Bedford U.K. | 30 October 1943 | Killed in the B-24D, 42-40246, Thundermug. Landing accident, Bedford, U.K. due to mechanical / material failure. Pilot Lt. Frank Kilcheski, RO SSgt. Gerald Weinberg, and another crewman KIA. 30 Oct 43. |
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Born |
Brooklyn, New York | ||
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Buried |
Revisions
Best Web - B-24 - 42-40608 - The Vulgar Virgin ---- Best Web - B-24 - 42-40246 - Thundermug
ABMC, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop & Hey p. 351 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
