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Second Lieutenant Frank Smolinsky. Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Joined RAFVR, service pilot training in US, shipped overseas to ETO, operational training at OTU, assigned to 121S, transferred to 335th FS, 4th FG 8AF USAAF Killed in a non-operational flight i
Died 3 April 1943
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Colonel Budd Peaslee. Pilot, 384th Bomb Group. First Commanding Officer of 384th Bomb Group and instigator of the Scouting Force concept, to enable the bomber stream to change course in good time if target area was obscured. Activated on 1st December 194
Died 3 April 1983
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Captain Raymond Care. Fighter Pilot, Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Captain Raymond Clare was from Angola, Indiana, and had enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force before the United States' entry into the war. He arrived in England in March 1942 and
Died 3 April 1987
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First Lieutenant Walter Konantz. Pilot, 55th Fighter Group. 64 missions. Had Scottie dog purchased in London, smuggled on board the troop ship, and brought her home. DFC/ AM w/ 10 Oak Leaf Cluster/ 2 Unit Citations/ ETO w/ 3 battle stars 1st Lieutenant
Died 3 April 2001
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Sergeant (Technician Fourth Grade) Heinz Mueller. Photo Technician, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 3 April 2002
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Lieutenant Eldon Broman. Pilot, 95th Bomb Group. Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #4230272 'Fritz Blitz. ' Prisoner of War (POW). POW PH
Died 3 April 2012
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) William Shiffer. Flight Engineer; Gunner, 490th Bomb Group. William J. Shiffer, flying on a bombing mission out of Eye on 1 September 1944, was one of 3 airmen to survive a mid-air collision over France between two USA bomber pl
Died 3 April 2015
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First Lieutenant James Van Ginkel. Pilot, 466th Bomb Group. 35 bombing missions in Germany: 1944 - 5 Sept Karlsruhe; 9 Sept Mainz; 9 Oct Koblenz; 12 Oct Osnabruck; 18 Oct Cologne; 19 Oct Mainz; 26 Oct Bottrop; 30 Oct Hamburg; 1 Nov Gelsenkirchen; 5 Nov Ka
Died 3 April 2016
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