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Second Lieutenant Jack Lafield. Navigator, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in Action (KIA). 7 July 1943 while TDY to 9th AF, fuel ran out while circling Benghasi. AC B-24 41-23692 'El Lobo' crashed. 4 were killed as bombs that had h
Died 8 July 1943
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Sergeant Edwin Goodman. Waist Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in air when a gun in another B-24 misfired and hit Goodman.
Died 8 July 1943
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Corporal Kenneth Blair. Weather Observer, 493rd Bomb Group. Kenneth Blair was killed when he collided with a plane as he was riding his bicycle across the airfield.
Died 8 July 1944
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Second Lieutenant James Lowder. Fighter Pilot, 355th Fighter Group. Killed in Action (KIA) hit trees and crashed near Coulommiers in P-51 #436945
Died 8 July 1944
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Vivien Leigh. , . Lady Olivier, Vivien Leigh, English stage and film actress. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress for her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Name
Died 8 July 1967
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Major Dorsey Baker. Pilot, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 8 July 1985
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Second Lieutenant Lowell Bruhns. Bombardier, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 8 July 1988
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First Lieutenant Joseph Mirando. Fighter Pilot, 55th Fighter Group. Flew from 11Dec 1944 to Apr 1945. Served with the NY Air National Guard and the TX Air National Guard. Retired as a Lt Col. Air Medal w/ 6 Oak Leaf Cluster 2 FW190
Died 8 July 1990
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First Lieutenant Russell Cornair. Co-Pilot, Pilot, 384th Bomb Group. Assigned to the 384th BG 547th BS on 6 June 1944, R Koch Crew, per squadron history (microfilm A0641-00226). 34 combat missions.
Died 8 July 2004
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Second Lieutenant Aubrey Hewatt. Fighter Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Assigned to 334FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down by an Bf109 on escort mission to Magdeburg in P-51B 43-6933. Hit by cannon fire which caused the A/C to break up in flames, Hewatt abandoned A/
Died 8 July 2007
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Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) Dwight Kinsey. Flight Engineer, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 8 July 2011
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Captain John Hardin. Pilot, 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars. John T Hardin was a pilot with the 91st Bomb Group. His most memorable mission was the one when they went to bomb the U-Boat Pen at La Pallice, France. His plane "Mizpah" collid
Died 8 July 2013
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