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BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY OIL REFINERY OIL REFINERY MARSHALLING YARDS MARSHALLING YARDS RAILROAD BRIDGES.
Locations: GELSENKIRCHEN/BUER GELSENKIRCHEN/NORDSTERN HAMM KOBLENZ RUDESHEIM
Mission date: 1 November 1944
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First Lieutenant Clifford Sherman. Fighter Pilot, 55th Fighter Group. 26th May 1944 - Joined the 38th Fighter Squadron In July 1944 Sherman was awarded the Air Medal September 1944 he was awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal. Killed while testi
Died 1 November 1944
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First Lieutenant Robert Grimes. pilot, 25th Bomb Group. On November 1, 1944 in a weather reconnaissance mission (Bluestocking weather Met), Mosquito aircraft crashed in England in severe weather. KIA
Died 1 November 1944
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Major John England. Pilot, 357th Fighter Group. John B England joined the 357th Fighter Group in August 1943 and arrived in England in November of the same year. Flying P-51 Mustangs, England claimed his first kill in March 1944 becoming an Ace 48 days la
Died 1 November 1954
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Loren Townsley. Nose Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 1 November 1964
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First Lieutenant Michael Pelish. Bombardier, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 1 November 1985
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Captain Mel Ingebrigtsen. Fighter Pilot, 20th Fighter Group.
Died 1 November 1995
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Blayne Withers. Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 1 November 1997
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Lieutenant Colonel Roy Evans. Fighter Pilot, 359th Fighter Group. As a youth, he was raised on a ranch near Santa Rosa, California. When his parents separated, he and his siblings lived with an English couple. While working at the railroad he wanted to be
Died 1 November 2009
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) George Kadlec. Waist Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 1 November 2013
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