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BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AIRCRAFT FACTORIES INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AIRFIELD AIRCRAFT FACTORIES INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.
Locations: AUGSBURG (Opportunistic) AUGSBURG (Primary) LAUFFERN (Opportunistic) LECHFELD (Primary) OBERPFAFFENHO
Mission date: 13 April 1944
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Flight Officer Leo Carey. Bombardier, 445th Bomb Group. Shot down 13 April 1944 in B-24 #4129132 'Tenovus. ' Killed in Action (KIA). AM/ PH
Died 13 April 1944
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Second Lieutenant Philip Wade. Bombardier, 390th Bomb Group. Shot down 13 April 1944 in B-17 #4239819 'Anoxia Queen. ' Killed in Action (KIA). PH
Died 13 April 1944
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Staff Sergeant Roy Sanders. Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner, 401st Bomb Group. Shot down 13 April 1944 in B-17 #4231508 'Command Performance. ' Killed in Action (KIA). PH
Died 13 April 1944
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Staff Sergeant Warren Canter. Tail Gunner, 401st Bomb Group. Shot down 13 April 1944 in B-17 #4231508 'Command Performance. ' Killed in Action (KIA). PH
Died 13 April 1944
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Lieutenant William Hoffman. Fighter Pilot, Pilot, 56th Fighter Group. Killed in Action (KIA) near Eggebek in P-47 'Teachers Pet' #4421134
Died 13 April 1945
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Staff Sergeant Jacob Martinez. Ball Turret Gunner, 384th Bomb Group. Shot down 14 October 1943 in B-17 #42-29870 'Big Moose. ' Prisoner of War (POW). Earlier on 4 Oct 43 on a mission to Frankfurt, B17#42-30043 'Ruthless' ditched in Nor
Died 13 April 1969
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Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) Michael Chodan. Radio Operator, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 13 April 1986
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First Lieutenant Arden Mills. Co-Pilot, 466th Bomb Group. Completed 25 missions before being seriously wounded
Died 13 April 1999
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Sergeant (Technician Fourth Grade) Aloysius McCloskey. Waist Gunner, 466th Bomb Group. Waist gunner on B-24 Liberator, bailed out 20 February 1945 after the control cables on his a/c snapped over Belgium.
Died 13 April 1999
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Donald Sargeant. Tail Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 13 April 2008
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Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) Lane Gebert. Radio Operator, 467th Bomb Group. Flew at least 14 "Carpetbagger" missions with the 492nd BG plus an unknown number of combat missions previously with the 467th BG
Died 13 April 2009
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Lieutenant Roy Truba. Bombardier, 457th Bomb Group. Roy Truba served as a bombardier with the 751st Bomb Squadron of the 457th Bomb Group. His aircraft, B-17 44-8557, was shot down on 18 April 1945. He successfully bailed out. It was his 13th mission. Fr
Died 13 April 2011
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Flight Officer John Fuller. Navigator, 466th Bomb Group. Raid on Berlin with 3000 airplanes front and back all flying to Berlin.
Died 13 April 2015
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