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DIVERSION TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY MARSHALLING YARDS.
Locations: ABBEVILLE/ DRUCAT ROMESCAMPS AMIENS/LONGEAU (Primary)
Mission date: 13 March 1943
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First Lieutenant Alfred Chamberlain. Pilot, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in Action (KIA). Plane took off from base, assigned to target Poix, France. During instrument climb to assembly altitude. Lt. Chamberlain flew into heavy prop wash wh
Died 13 March 1944
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First Lieutenant Alfred Edes. Bomber Pilot, 379th Bomb Group. Shot down by coastal guns on a mission to Poix, FR on 13 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-39980 and crashed just off the French coast. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 13 March 1944
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Lieutenant Raymond Piotrowski. Navigator, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in Action (KIA). Plane took off from base, assigned to target Poix, France. During instrument climb to assembly altitude. Lt. Chamberlain flew into heavy prop wash whil
Died 13 March 1944
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Second Lieutenant Beauford McKethen. Co-Pilot, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in Action (KIA). Plane took off from base, assigned to target Poix, France. During instrument climb to assembly altitude. Lt. Chamberlain flew into heavy prop wash
Died 13 March 1944
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Second Lieutenant Eugene Talley. Bombardier, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in Action (KIA). Plane took off from base, assigned to target Poix, France. During instrument climb to assembly altitude. Lt. Chamberlain flew into heavy prop wash w
Died 13 March 1944
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Second Lieutenant Roy Wendell. Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. Crashed near Podington for unknown reasons while on a local gun camera flight on 13 Mar 1944 in P-47C #41-6223. Killed in Action (KIA). AM w/ Oak Leaf Cluster
Died 13 March 1944
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Staff Sergeant Anthony Dalberto. Tail Gunner, 379th Bomb Group. Shot down by coastal guns on a mission to Poix, FR on 13 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-39980 and crashed just off the French coast. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 13 March 1944
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Technical Sergeant Frederick Brewer. Top Turret Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in Action (KIA). Plane took off from base, assigned to target Poix, France. During instrument climb to assembly altitude. Lt. Chamberlain flew into heavy
Died 13 March 1944
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Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) Burl Garrett. Top Turret Gunner, 466th Bomb Group. Prisoner of War (POW) Crashed at Wiggingen on 9/8/44 in B-24 Silent Yokum #4250581
Died 13 March 2001
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Major Henry Plunk. Pilot, 479th Fighter Group. I'm Daryl Plunk. My dad, Henry Porter Plunk (1922-2006) flew as an Army Air Force Captain, and fighter pilot of P38s and P51, stationed at Wattisham Air Base, UK, May 1944 - Jan. 1945. He flew 60 comb
Died 13 March 2006
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