Earl Daughman
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
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Military
Lead Crew Squadron Operations Officer
AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster/ DFC
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Waist Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 466th Bomb Group
Served as lead RO on crews of Robert C. Moore and Glen Alexander.
Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
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...
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Flight Engineer | 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...
Squadron
Squadron
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
29 July 1944
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.
6 August 1944
30 August 1944
End of Operation Overlord.
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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.
6 October 1944
9 October 1944
Black Week
22 October 1944
30 October 1944
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 | 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" |
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Died | Springfield, IL, USA | 16 June 2016 |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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06 April 2020 19:44:10 | 466thHistorian | Changes to aircraft associations |
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466th BG Archives - Mission Report for 22October 1944 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
21 June 2016 14:47:04 | 466thHistorian | Changes to events |
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http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sj-r/obituary.aspx?n=glen-herbert-alexa... |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
04 April 2015 02:26:26 | 466thHistorian | Changes to events |
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466th BG Historian |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
04 April 2015 02:25:40 | 466thHistorian | Changes to awards, events, unit associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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466th BG Historian |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:11:29 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self |