Military
Assigned to 3rd Combat Crew Replacement Center, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) short navigational flight out of Toome, Nth Ireland in B-26B 41-18072 when it crashed in an Antrim hills peat bog, tail first. Killed non Operational (KNO).
Awards: PH.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bomber pilot
Assigned to 3rd Combat Crew Replacement Center, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) short navigational flight out of Toome, Nth Ireland in B-26B 41-18072 when it crashed in an Antrim hills peat bog, tail first. Killed non Operational (KNO).
Awards: PH.
Unit
Established as 2902nd Combat Crew Replacement Center Group on 23 August 1943 at Toome. Opened on 20 September 1943 to provide theatre indoctrination to B-26 Marauder crews.
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B-26 Marauder
Assigned to 450BS, 322BG, 9AF USAAF. Transferred to 3rd Combat Crew Replacement Center. Lost on short navigational flight out of Toome, Nth Ireland, when it crashed in an Antrim hills peat bog, tail first. 6 x Killed non Operational (KNO). 4-Jul-44.
Military site : airfield
Built during 1942-43 as a bomber OTU satellite, first to RAF Cluntoe and then to RAF Nutt’s Corner, Toome had three concrete runways, 30 pan type hardstandings, and two pairs of T2 hangars. 50 concrete 'fingers’ were added for aircraft storage during...
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| Born | Middlesex County, NJ, USA | 2 August 1917 |
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Son of Hans Peter and Matilda Twibill Eriksen. |
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| Lived in | Fords, New Jersey | 1941 |
| Enlisted | Fort Dix, NJ, USA | 22 July 1941 |
| Based | Toome | June 1944 – 5 July 1944 |
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Assigned to 3rd Combat Crew Replacement Center, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Died | Antrim BT41, UK | 4 July 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) short navigational flight out of Toome, Nth Ireland in B-26B 41-18072 when it crashed in an Antrim hills peat bog, tail first. Killed non Operational (KNO). |
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| Buried | Lisnabreeny American Military Cemetery | 5 July 1944 |
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Interred |
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| Buried | Woodbridge Township, NJ, USA | 1948 |
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Re-Interred |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 29 May 2017 08:47:43 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, nickname, biography, awards, events, person associations, unit associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/310760263/?terms=Hans%20C%20Erickson |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:11:50 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces Vol. IV by Bishop & Hey, p.29, MACR 15113, NARA |
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