Howard W Slaton

Military
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Object Number - UPL 50463 - Cpt. Howard Slaton and crew

31 missions '43-'44 (B-24). Two missions on D-Day. On first Berlin mission, shot up pretty badly. Two friendly fighters escorted us to the Channel. Lost two engines, 460 patches to repair A/C. Other missions rough but always made it home.



DFC 1Oak Leaf Cluster; AM 3Oak Leaf Cluster

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'

458th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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Born

Town Creek, Alabama 19 September 1917

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self & Page 408 in the book 2ND AIR DIVISIONby Turner Publishing Company, 1998 edition (D790.A2S45)

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Object number: UPL 50463 - Cpt. Howard Slaton and crew

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