Glen H Alexander | American Air Museum in Britain

Crew # 647 & 460 Glen H. Alexander Crew 466th BG - 786th and 784th Bomb Squadrons Top Row Left to Right: Lowell K. Halls (B), Clifton B. Stauff (N), Glen H. Alexander (P), Melvin Robison (TG), Arthur M. Parks (R/O) Bottom Row Left to Right: William J. Deal (TT), Earl Daughman (G), Harry Tootell (FE), Sol Gorlitsky (G), Leonard A. Pierce (CP) This crew was lead by Alexander for 14 missions. Alexander was then promoted to a squadron staff position and R.C. Moore took over and lead them from 30 October 1944 on.

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Crew # 749/476 Bradley J. Saunders Crew 466th BG - 787th & 784th Bomb Squadrons Flew 17 missions with the 787th BS then after training as a lead crew, flew 15 more mission as a lead crew with the 784th BS B-24L-10-FO #44-49582 "Fran" Code: T9-O Standing Left to Right: Glen H. Alexander (786th BS Operations officer formerly pilot of Crew #647), Charles Walker (CP), Unknown, Bradley J. Saunders (P), Unknown (Possibly Regis O'Rourke -PN), Theodore Smith (R/O), Unknown Kneeling Left to Right: John C. Rohrssen (FE), Unknown, Unknown, Alson K. Petty (NG), Charles Tomlin (TG), Robert A. Linard (BTG)

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Lead Crew Squadron Operations Officer

AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster/ DFC

Service

Earl Daughman

Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Solomon Gorlitsky

Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Waist Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Lowell Halls

Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 466th Bomb Group
Arthur Parks

Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 466th Bomb Group
Served as lead RO on crews of Robert C. Moore and Glen Alexander.
Leonard Pierce

Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
Melvin Robison

Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Wounded by enemy fighters on 15th mission on 25 December 1944. After bombing troop and supply concentrations which were supporting the enemy in the Battle of the Bulge, three separate fighters attacked my tail position. Fought off the 1st two but the...
Clifton Stauff

Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 466th Bomb Group
Harry Tootell

Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Flight Engineer | 466th Bomb Group

466th Bomb Group

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...
784th Bomb Squadron

Squadron
786th Bomb Squadron

Squadron

503

29 July 1944
507

31 July 1944
Flak knocked out #2 engine, the interphone system, the VHF plus other damages. We got back to the base before the formation.
524

6 August 1944
590

30 August 1944
End of Operation Overlord. ...
623

11 September 1944
Major Harmon flew Command Pilot. Did not hit the target because Mickey wasn't working. Brought our bombs back. Got to shoot at some fighters.
667

6 October 1944
8th Air Force 670

9 October 1944
Black Week
685

22 October 1944
693

30 October 1944

Attlebridge

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
Born	Chatham, Illinois	27 August 1921
Lived in	Chatham, IL, USA	1942
Mission	Ludwigshafen, Germany	31 July 1944
Ceiling was practically in the ground. We seemed to hit the soup as soon as we pulled off the runway. Visibility was barely a mile. We bombed from 25,000 feet. Temperature was -30C. Heavy flak, but we caught none of it (or so I thought). Parks (R/O) oxygen mask came disconnected over the target while he was holding the bomb bay doors open. I looked around and saw him weaving over the doors with no chute on. I jumped out of my seat to grab him and I was exhausted by the time I reached him. We both laid on the flight deck half conscious while we each signaled to the other that we were okay. Tootell (FE) finally came up from the waist to see why the bomb bay doors were still open. He found us some walk around bottles and we both soon came around. We made an instrument let down with about an 800 foot ceiling. Broke out right over Swanton Morley airfield and split the field in half. I found out later that our tail turret power system had been knocked out by flak. - Glen H. Alexander from the book "Attlebridge Arsenal"
Died	Springfield, IL, USA	16 June 2016

Date	Contributor	Update
06 April 2020 19:44:10	466thHistorian	Changes to aircraft associations
Sources
466th BG Archives - Mission Report for 22October 1944 NARA document research provided by Brad Sullivan
Date	Contributor	Update
21 June 2016 14:47:04	466thHistorian	Changes to events
Sources
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sj-r/obituary.aspx?n=glen-herbert-alexa...
Date	Contributor	Update
04 April 2015 02:26:26	466thHistorian	Changes to events
Sources
466th BG Historian
Date	Contributor	Update
04 April 2015 02:25:40	466thHistorian	Changes to awards, events, unit associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations
Sources
466th BG Historian Attlebridge Arsenal - Brassfield & Wassom
Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:11:29	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self