Andrew Edward Felbinger Jr
Military ROLL OF HONOURAssigned to 564BS, 389BG, 8AF USAAF. Ran out of fuel and crashed at Noyelles in B-24 41-28713. Parachute failed to open. Killed in Action (KIA).
Awards: AM (OLC), PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 453rd Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron 735th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16104085 and O-760762
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 453rd Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron 733rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-25999
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot, / Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Baltimore, MD, USA | 10 July 1922 | |
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Other Killed in action |
Prémesques France | 11 July 1944 | Ran out of fuel and crashed at Noyelles in B-24 41-28713. Parachute failed to open. Killed in Action (KIA). |
| Morristown, Pennsylvania, USA | |||
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Buried |
Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial | Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial Liege, Belgium Plot A Row 44 Grave 1 | |
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Based |
Hethel | 11 July 1944 | Assigned to 564BS, 389BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Merged with duplicate entries to include details from:
- the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia;
- MACR 7491;
- The Liberator Men of Old Buc
He was quickly buried by people living near the place where he fell so that the German soldiers do not find him. His parachute having put itself in torch. He was afterward buried in the cemetery of the South in Lille then in Belgium. Homer H Badgett and Pat Crawford (same crew) went on his grave to Lille, got back its plates after they were freed by the English army and before returning in England.
MACR 7491 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database