Brent Caldwell
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
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Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 93rd Bomb Group
Enlisted January 1942, trained at Roswell, NM. Assigned to 330BS,93BG,8thAF USAAF. Bombardier for Utah Man for Operation Tidal Wave. He dropped the first bombs on a Ploesti target. Failed to return (FTR) from Bremen, attacked en-route to target 13-Nov...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Gunner | 93rd Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) 15 September 1943 as B-24 #42-40938 was shot down over France.
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier; Pathfinder Navigator | 93rd Bomb Group
Initially on B-24 42-95024, the “Gypsy Queen” piloted by Leo Baumann. After its crash, reassigned to other planes. On the 20th mission in January 1945, plane was hit by flak and landed in Sweden. Interned in Sweden until 8 May 1945. B-24 42-51523, the...
Military | Colonel | Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 93rd Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator of B-24 | 93rd Bomb Group
Killed in Action as a result of aircraft B-24 Serial 42-40938 being shot down over France, September 15, 1943.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 93rd Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down near Tilburg on 9/18/44 in B-24 'Baggie Maggie' #42100416. Liberated from Stalag IX-B on April 2, 1945.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Gunner B-24 | 93rd Bomb Group
Killed in Action after aircraft was shot down over France, 1943.
B-24 Liberator
29 March 1944, two B24s collided over Henham, a few miles from Halesworth airfield. 9 Crew of the 41-110033 died, and 7 of the 41-28590. During the rescue operations the bomb load of one of the Liberators exploded, killing 6 men from Halesworth
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