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Mission date: 4 February 1944
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FIGHTER ESCORT FIGHTER ESCORT 48 P-47s from IX Fighter Command 358FG are despatched to support the bomber escort. No losses or claims in this element..
Locations: FRANKFURT FRANKFURT Frankfurt, Germany Frankfurt, Germany
Mission date: 4 February 1944
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Second Lieutenant Donald Caylor. Navigator, 92nd Bomb Group Fame's Favoured Few. Shot down by fighters and flak on return from mission to Frankfurt on 4 Feb 1944 in B-17F #42-30423. Killed in Action (KIA). POW
Died 4 February 1944
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Second Lieutenant Michael Roskovich. Radio Operator; Gunner; AAF Gunnery Officer, 306th Bomb Group The Reich Wreckers. He was the first man in the 8th to complete 25 mission combat tour. He got credit for the destruction of two Focke-Wulf 190s on 20 Dece
Died 4 February 1944
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First Lieutenant Frank Willms. Pilot, 344th Bomb Group. Frank Willms attended Coffeyville Junior College. He enlisted in June 1942 in the Air Corps and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant at Brooks Field, Texas in October 1943. Sent overseas, he was firs
Died 4 February 1983
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First Lieutenant Walter Guhde. Pilotage Navigator/Bombardier, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 4 February 1988
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First Lieutenant Sanford Gaylord. Navigator, 489th Bomb Group. Sandy Gaylord served as a B-24 Navigator with the 489th Bomb Group stationed at Halesworth during the Secord World War and flew many missions. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Died 4 February 2001
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First Lieutenant Alfred Nelson. Co-Pilot, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 4 February 2008
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) John Gattis. Waist Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 4 February 2010
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