Harry C Hogan

Military

Joined Sqd 3-Aug-42. ETO/Flight Echelon 2-Oct-42. On 15-Feb-43 in B-24D 41-23800 "The Captain and the Kids' while serving as Radio Operator the aircraft was damaged by flak and enemy fighter attacks but managed to make it back to England where the pilot made a wheels-up landing at Sandwich Flats, Kent. He was not injured.



On 17-May-43 on a mission to Bordeaux, France Missing in Action he was pulled from a B-24 plane by chute. (Aircraft not identified).



AM/ Oak Leaf Cluster

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Units served with

The insignia of the 44th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
B-24 Liberators of the 44th Bomb Group line up for takeoff at Shipdham in 1943. The 'Flying Eight-Ball' emblem of the 68th Bomb Squadron is visible on the nose of the leading aircraft. Image stamped with field press censor, 1943. Press Agency photograph- original printed caption has been removed.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: The Captain and the Kids
  • Unit: 44th Bomb Group 68th Bomb Squadron

Missions

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Events

Event Location Date Description

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Returned to Duty (RTD)

Sandwich, Kent, UK 15 February 1943 Aircraft B-24D 41-23800 was damaged by flak and enemy aircraft on return from a mission to Dunkirk, France. Aircraft made a wheels-up landing at Sandwich Flats, Kent. He was not injured and Returned to Duty (RTD)

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

English Channel 17 May 1943 Killed when he was pulled from the aircraft in mid-air over the English Channel by his parachute on a mission to Bordeaux, France

Other

Commemorated

Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Madingley Road, Coton, Cambridgeshire CB23 7PH, UK Commemorated on the Wall of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery.

Revisions

Date
ContributorLee8thbuff
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Sources

Lee Cunningham 17-Feb-2014. Added Commemorated event per American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC); all other chnaged per "The Losses of the 8th 7 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Webb Todd, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop & Hey p. 499, ABMC