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INDUSTRIAL AREA V-1 MISSILE SITES V-1 MISSILE SITES.
Locations: MARIES MINE BUILDINGS (Opportunistic) PAS DE CALAIS (Primary) PAS DE CALAIS (Primary)
Mission date: 13 February 1944
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Second Lieutenant James Tyson. Bombardier, 447th Bomb Group. Shot down by flak and crashed near Poix, FR on a mission to Ardouval and Marquenville on 13 Feb 1944 in B-17G #42-31160. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 13 February 1944
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Flight Officer Leslie Gruner. Navigator, 458th Bomb Group. Killed in A Dog’s Life in Old Catton, Norwich when the engine failed during a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 13 February 1945
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Second Lieutenant Allen Jewett. Co-Pilot, 458th Bomb Group. Killed in A Dog’s Life in Old Catton, Norwich when the engine failed during a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 13 February 1945
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Second Lieutenant Lawrence Shannon. Pilot, 458th Bomb Group. Killed in A Dog’s Life in Old Catton, Norwich when the engine failed during a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 13 February 1945
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Sergeant Charles Given. Gunner, 458th Bomb Group. Killed in A Dog’s Life in Old Catton, Norwich when the engine failed during a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 13 February 1945
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Sergeant Frederick Caudell. Aerial Gunner, 458th Bomb Group. Killed in A Dog’s Life in Old Catton, Norwich when the engine failed during a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 13 February 1945
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Sergeant Gene Hamilton. Aerial Gunner, 458th Bomb Group. Killed in A Dog’s Life in Old Catton, Norwich when the engine failed during a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 13 February 1945
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Sergeant Grant Ordiway. Armorer-Gunner, 458th Bomb Group. Killed in A Dog’s Life in Old Catton, Norwich when the engine failed during a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 13 February 1945
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Sergeant Robert Ward. Engineer, 458th Bomb Group. Killed in A Dog’s Life in Old Catton, Norwich when the engine failed during a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 13 February 1945
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Sergeant William Weber. Radio Operator, 458th Bomb Group. Killed in A Dog’s Life in Old Catton, Norwich when the engine failed during a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 13 February 1945
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Lieutenant Colonel Duane Beeson. Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Duane W Beeson joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941, by February 1942 he had completed over 200 hours of flying and was transferred to Britain to join No. 71 (Eagle) Squadron, RAF 24 days l
Died 13 February 1947
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Captain Franklin Coslett. Navigator, 467th Bomb Group. Shot down 29 April 1944 in B-24 #4252506. Evaded.
Died 13 February 1992
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Captain Niles Hartung. Pilot, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 13 February 1992
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Colonel Vermont Garrison. Fighter Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Vermont was born in Mount Victory, Kentucky, on 29 October 1915. He attended Eastern Kentucky State University. On March 17, 1941, Garrison enlisted in the United States Army and became an aviati
Died 13 February 1994
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Corporal William Pierce. Gunner, 466th Bomb Group. Flew 35 missions as member of Lee's Crew Air Medal with 5 Oak Leaf Cluster, EAME medal with 4 bronze stars, Overseas Service Bar, Aerial gunner badge, ASR badge Completed 35 missions. Flew on B-24J
Died 13 February 2005
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First Lieutenant Grady Faubion. Co-Pilot, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 13 February 2005
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Major Rose Hager. Squadron Commander - 472nd Sub Depot, 339th Fighter Group. assigned after VE Day
Died 13 February 2006
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Victor DeGanna. Nose Gunner, 466th Bomb Group. After being badly shot up the Owens Crew was broken up after their 4th mission. DeGanna we reassigned to the Joseph A. Hayes Crew.
Died 13 February 2008
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Second Lieutenant Andrew Conway. Bombardier, 384th Bomb Group. Assigned to the 384th Bomb Group on Gowen Field (Boise, Idaho) Special Orders #32 dated 1 February 1943, Lykes Henderson Crew, 2 combat missions. Prisoner of War (POW). Shot down 26 June 1943
Died 13 February 2013
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