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DIVERSION BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY AIRFIELD RAILROADS and WATERWAYS RAILROADS and WATERWAYS.
Locations: COESFELD (Opportunistic) ENSCHEDE (Opportunistic) Münster Münster, Germany
Mission date: 10 October 1943
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Staff Sergeant Clarence Coombs. Ball Turret Gunner, 100th Bomb Group. Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #4230047 'Sweater Girl. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 10 October 1943
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Staff Sergeant Elmer Fjosne. Ball Turret Gunner, 390th Bomb Group. Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #4230262 'Tech Supply. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 10 October 1943
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Staff Sergeant Frank Malone. Tail Gunner, 390th Bomb Group. Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #4230262 'Tech Supply. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 10 October 1943
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Technical Sergeant Orlando Vincenti. Radio Operator, Radio Operator Gunner, 100th Bomb Group. Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #4230725 'Aw-R-Go. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 10 October 1943
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Technical Sergeant Paul Hurles. Radio Operator, Radio Operator Gunner, 390th Bomb Group. Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #4230262 'Tech Supply. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 10 October 1943
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Technical Sergeant Roy Rightmire. Top Turret Gunner, 95th Bomb Group. Flight engineer/top turret gunner B-17F 42-30272 'Fritz Blitz': Roy Rightmire (KIA, anoxia); 10-10-43.
Died 10 October 1943
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Technical Sergeant Roy Rightmire. Top Turret Gunner, 95th Bomb Group. Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #4230272 'Fritz Blitz. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 10 October 1943
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Second Lieutenant Benjamin Christensen. Navigator, 351st Bomb Group. Died in hospital in Karlshamn, Sweden, after crash landing with aircraft 42-31192 (YB-R), B-17G in Farabol, Sweden. Plane was hit by flak over Politz, Germany. It was his 2nd mission.
Died 10 October 1944
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Corporal (Technician Fifth Grade) Forrest Bradley. MOS 345, Truck Driver, Light, 384th Bomb Group.
Died 10 October 1959
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Lieutenant Colonel William O'Regan. Fighter Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Joined RAFVR, service pilot training, shipped overseas to ETO, OTU training, assigned to 71S, transfer to 334th FS, 4th FG, 334 FS 16-9-42 / 7-10-43, Designated Flight Commander B
Died 10 October 1980
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Staff Sergeant Clinton Coughlin. Top Turret Gunner; Flight Engineer, 306th Bomb Group The Reich Wreckers. He flew on Cecil McKinney crew. Reported to the ETO on 12 Apr 1944. Departed ETO on 25 Sept 1944.
Died 10 October 1988
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Private Ernest Johnson. Military Policman, . Ernest Johnson enlisted in the US Army in October 1940. He was sent overseas and was stationed in London as a member of the Arcadia 32nd Military Police (MP) company, National Guard, when he met WAAF Dorothy De
Died 10 October 1991
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Wing Commander Raymond Duke-Woolley. Pilot / Wing and later Group commander, 4th Fighter Group. Took command of Debden Wing [3 x Eagle Sqn] Transferred to command 4th FG USAAF as an RAF officer, 12 September 1942 — December 1942. RAF Squadron Leader
Died 10 October 1991
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Staff Sergeant Russell Shafer. Waist Gunner, 306th Bomb Group The Reich Wreckers. He flew on Thomas Hedley crew. Reported to the ETO On 28 Nov 1944. Departed the ETO on 19 May 1945. AM 3OLC,
Died 10 October 1992
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First Lieutenant Carlton Gibbs. Radar (H2X) Navigator, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 10 October 1996
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Second Lieutenant Edward Tappan. Co-Pilot, 801st Bomb Group. Born and raised in North Carolina, Ed Tappan and his family moved to Arizona in 1931. Ed attended the Evans School for Boys in Tucson and competed on the school’s early rodeo teams. He stu
Died 10 October 1996
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Technical Sergeant Mearl Houck. Aerial Engineer; Top Turret, 390th Bomb Group. 21 October 1943 B17#42-3327 'Tete T'Mete' was retuning to base when mission was abandoned with full bomb load and fuel tank. Tire blew out on landing with heavy
Died 10 October 1999
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First Lieutenant Warren Woodward. Pilot, 466th Bomb Group. Air Medal w/3Oak Leaf Cluster; ETO
Died 10 October 2006
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Captain Joseph Andrecheck. Co-Pilot, 388th Bomb Group. Command pilot Aphrodite drone B-17 42-30212, mission to V1 missile site Watten, France. 6-8-44. Baled out successfully over UK.
Died 10 October 2011
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