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1st Lt. Glenn U. Brooks
1st Lt. Glenn U. Brooks
1st Lt. Glenn U. Brooks
Missing Air Crew Report number 16291, 42-29659, "Liberty Belle". 22 March 1943
Glenn U. Brooks - MACR file card from the National Archives.
Glenn U. Brooks - Pilot Class Book 43-B-C at Brooks Field, San Antonio, Texas. Glenn U. Brooks 2nd from left
1st Lt.Brooks was in the U.S. Army Air Forces 327th Bomber Squadron, 92nd Bomber Group, Heavy, # O-437931. After flying 4 missions with the 91st, he was temporarily attached to the 91st Group for combat training.
Brought down 22 March 1943 in B-17 #4229659 'Liberty Bell. ' Plane crashed into North Sea. Killed in Action (KIA). The assigned target was Wilhelmshaven, Germany. The plane was on its first mission being flown by 7 members of the 92nd BG/ 327th BS and 3 from the 91st BG. On its return from the mission, the aircraft was hit by bomb dropped from above by a Messerschmitt Bf 109 (Me 109) flown by Oberleutnant Heinz Knoke, and crashed into the North Sea 20 miles west of Heligoland with all ten crewman killed in action (KIA). In this action, Knoke thus became the first of only a few fighter pilots to successfully destroy an enemy aircraft by "bombing the bombers" (an experimental tactic that was soon abandoned by the Luftwaffe).
Air Medal, Purple Heart
Group
The 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated at Harding Field, Louisiana on 15-April-1942 and went to MacDill Field, Florida for the first phase of training from 16-May-1942 to 25-June-1942. The Group was then assigned to 2nd Air Force at Walla...
Group
The 92nd Group sometime after arrivial in the UK converted to the role of in-theater combat crew indocrination and training. For this role, the Group traded its B-17F complement and obtained the B-17E, mostly from the 97th BG which was departing for...
Squadron
Home of the Memphis Belle
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 28/1/43; Salina 9/2/43; Assigned 324BS/91BG Bassingbourn 15/3/43; Missing in Action 1m Wilhelmshafen 22/3/43 with Capt Hascall McClellan, Co-pilot: Glenn Brooks, Navigator: Claud Green, Bombardier: Clarry Buckman, Flight engineer/top...
22 March 1943
The U-Boat pens and harbour facilities at Wilhelmshaven, Germany are the primary target for this mission. 76 B-17's are despatched: 91BG (21); 303BG (18); 305BG (18); and 306BG (19). These are joined by 26 B-24's: 44BG (12) and 93BG (14). Of this force...
Military site : airfield
Alconbury had been constructed as a satellite airfield for RAF Upwood and Wyton and was used by RAF Squadrons: Nos. 15, 40 and 156. In preparation for the arrival of American heavy bombers, the base was developed in 1942 with the runways extended. When...
Military site : airfield
Now home to a museum all about the aifield and its USAAF residents (http://www.towermuseumbassingbourn.co.uk/) , Bassingbourn opened in 1938 as part of the RAF's pre-war expansion programme. The RAF continued to use it until late in 1942 when its long...
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Fayette County, Kentucky | 11 July 1919 |
| Enlisted | MACDILL FIELD, FLORIDA | 12 July 1941 |
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Army Serial Number at time of enlistment: 14044382 |
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| Killed in Action (KIA) | North Sea | 22 March 1943 |
| Died | 22 March 1943 | |
| Memorialized | Arlington National Cemetary | |
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1LT Glenn Ulrich Brooks Jr. |
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The remains of 1st Lt. Brooks were never recovered, and he is eternally memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 07 February 2022 18:53:25 | Douglas P | Changes to suffix and events |
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NARA |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 07 February 2022 18:35:49 | Douglas P | Changes to service number, biography, awards, unit associations, place associations and mission associations |
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NARA |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:11:34 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 16291 / MACR 16291, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. 1 p. 92 by Bishop & Hey, National WWII Monument web site / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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