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BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY INDUSTRIAL AREA AIRFIELD.
Locations: Brunswick, Germany GILZE-RIJEN (Primary)
Mission date: 10 February 1944
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First Lieutenant Herbert Loebs. Pilot, 389th Bomb Group. Crashed shortly after takeoff believed due to severe icing conditions on a mission to Gilze-Rijen airfield, Holland in B-24J #42-100046 'Patsy Ann'. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 10 February 1944
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Second Lieutenant Donald Ludwig. Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. Shot down by coastal flak near Egmond, Holland and presumed lost in the North Sea on 10 Feb 1944 in P-47C #41-6249 'Vee Gaile'. Killed in Action (KIA). AM/ PH
Died 10 February 1944
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Second Lieutenant Paul MacWilliam. Pilot, 94th Bomb Group. Shot down by fighters and crashed 10 miles east of the target of Brunswick on 10 Feb 1944 in B-17G #42-31080 'Hey Moitle. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 10 February 1944
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Second Lieutenant Robert Ayrest. Pilot, 448th Bomb Group. Crashed for unconfirmed reasons near Tibenham, Norfolk on a mission to Gilze-Rijen airfield, Holland on 10 Feb 1944 in B-24H #42-52132. Killed in Action (KIA). Earlier 12 December 1943 B24H#42-7
Died 10 February 1944
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Sergeant Harold Aucker. Gunner, 448th Bomb Group. Crashed for unconfirmed reasons near Tibenham, Norfolk on a mission to Gilze-Rijen airfield, Holland on 10 Feb 1944 in B-24H #42-52132. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 10 February 1944
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Staff Sergeant Louis LeFevre. Tail Gunner, 388th Bomb Group. Assigned to 562BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot up by flak over the target and exploded and crashed near Uitgeest, Holland on return from a mission to Brunswick on 10 Feb 1944 in B-17G 42-31115 '
Died 10 February 1944
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Staff Sergeant Robert Taylor. Radio Operator, 389th Bomb Group. Crashed shortly after takeoff believed due to severe icing conditions on a mission to Gilze-Rijen airfield, Holland in B-24J #42-1000046 'Patsy Ann'. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 10 February 1944
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Technical Sergeant Norman Kajut. Radio Operator, 388th Bomb Group. Shot up by flak over the target and exploded and crashed near Uitgeest, Holland on return from a mission to Brunswick on 10 Feb 1944 in B-17G #42-31115 'Hell's Bells'. Kille
Died 10 February 1944
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Lieutenant Colonel Manvel Davis. Staff Judge Advocate, . Received the Purple Heart, Bronze Star and French War Cross for WW I
Died 10 February 1959
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Major Lloyd Hathcock. Pilot, . Lt (Later Major) Lloyd S “Scotty” Hathcock. 310th FS, 332nd FG, 12th AF. Captured in Italy having got lost on ferry mission in Republic P-47D 42-75971, landed in error at enemy held Rome-Littorio on 29th May 1944
Died 10 February 1985
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Second Lieutenant Glenn Fielding. Pilot, 361st Fighter Group. Missions flown-81; Operational hours 298:45. Once came back to base with a foot long solid chunk of cast iron weighing 12 pounds( from a German freight car) embedded in the right wing of his P-
Died 10 February 1988
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Glen Hulse. Tail Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 10 February 1988
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Captain Willis Michael. Station Signals Officer, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 10 February 1991
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Major Joe Kilgore. Pilot, . Joe Madison Kilgore (December 10, 1918 – February 10, 1999) served from 1955 to 1965 as a U.S. Representative from Texas's 15th congressional district. Born in Brown County, near Brownwood in west central Texas, Kilg
Died 10 February 1999
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Captain Irving Kastil. Bombardier - Squadron Bombardier, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 10 February 2005
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First Lieutenant Edward Kozon. Navigator, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 10 February 2008
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Staff Sergeant Francis Anderson. Engineer / Top Turret Gunner, 351st Bomb Group. Francis Anderson was born in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. He was a 1941 graduate of Live Oak Street High School, New Smyrna Beach. He enlisted in the Air Corps in October 1942
Died 10 February 2015
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