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Mission date: 14 August 1944
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First Lieutenant Julian Morford. Pilot, 405th Fighter Group.
Died 14 August 1944
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First Lieutenant Louis Alphonse. Fighter Pilot, 356th Fighter Group. Assigned to 359FS, 356FG, 8AF USAAF. 40 missions and credited 1 aerial victory. Failed to Return (FTR) fighter bomber mission to Rheims, on landfall on French coast at Le Treport, last s
Died 14 August 1944
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PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION SCOUTING MISSION WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE MISSION WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE MISSION CARPETBAGGER MISSION UNKNOWN.
Locations: ATLANTIC OCEAN CARPETBAGGER HEMMINGSTADT - APHRODITE
Mission date: 14 August 1944
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Second Lieutenant Charles Peal. Fighter Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. Killed in Action (KIA) at Grouy in P-47 #4226449
Died 14 August 1944
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Colonel David Schilling. Pilot; Commanding Officer; Assistant Director Intelligence, 56th Fighter Group. Schilling flew P-47 Thunderbolts and was one of the leading aces of the war. He was Commanding Officer of the 56th Fighter Group between August 1944 a
Died 14 August 1956
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First Lieutenant George Middleton. Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Joined RAFVR, assigned to 133S, transferred to 336FS 4FG 8AF USAAF, shot down 26 September 1942 in Spitfire IX BS301 near Morlaix, France. Prisoner of War (POW).
Died 14 August 1986
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Major John Stryker. , 361st Fighter Group.
Died 14 August 1994
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Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) Byron Wertz. Flight Engineer, 466th Bomb Group. T/Sgt Byron L. Wertz served with the 785th Bombardment Squadron of the 466th Heavy Bomb Group, 8th Army Air Force, and was stationed at Attlebridge Airfield near Norfolk Englan
Died 14 August 1997
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Gilbert Bartosiewski. Waist Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 14 August 1998
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Second Lieutenant Claudius Belk. Navigator, 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) 26 June 1943, B17 42-3003
Died 14 August 1999
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Captain Thomas Harrell. Pilot, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 14 August 2003
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