Glenn M Wisdom

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-30585.jpeg UPL 30585 Staff Sergeant Glenn M Wisdom , 457th Bomb Group, 749th Bomb Squadron.

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Object Number - UPL 30585 - Staff Sergeant Glenn M Wisdom , 457th Bomb Group, 749th Bomb Squadron.

Assigned to 749BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Merseberg in B-17 'Half N Half' 42-38064 Mid air collision with B-17 44-8418 8-Nov-44, Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 10344



Awards: AM (3OLC), PH.

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Units served with

Unofficial emblem of the 457th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 15383237 / O-819789
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Half ‘n Half | Arf ‘n Arf
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron

Places

The mission board of the 457th Bomb Group. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-299-2-457)(16/5/45)(Op's Board's).'
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Connington

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Red Bud, Illinois, USA 22 January 1913

Enlisted

89 Carothers Rd, Newport, KY 41071, USA 11 April 1941 Fort Thomas Newport, KY.

Died

English Channel 8 November 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Merseberg in B-17 'Half N Half' 42-38064 Mid air collision with B-17 44-8418 8-Nov-44, Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 10344

Buried

Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial

Based

Killed in Action (KIA)

Glatton 8 November 1944 Assigned to 749BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF.

Buried

6202 Charles St, Rockford, IL 61108, USA Memorialised Arlington Memorial Park Cemetery Rockford, Winnebago County, IL

Revisions

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Sources

1993 457th BGA Roster, ABMC, MACR 10344 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 10344 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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