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Captain Beattie Fleenor. Pilot, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4124122 'Missouri Sue. ' Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA). According to Stewart pilot Fleenor was flying an H model B2
Died 16 April 1943
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First Lieutenant Kenneth Baughman. Navigator, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4123732 'Liberty Lass. ' Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA). AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster
Died 16 April 1943
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First Lieutenant Lawrence Leach. Pilot, 305th Bomb Group Can Do. Shot down by fighters 16 April 1943 in B-17 #425220. Mission was to uboat yards at Lorient. Plane crashed about 12 miles northeast of Lorient. Killed in Action (KIA). Air medal with Oak Lea
Died 16 April 1943
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First Lieutenant Robert Grant. Bombardier, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4123732 'Liberty Lass. ' Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 16 April 1943
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Lieutenant George Pinner. Bombardier, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4124122 'Missouri Sue. ' Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA). Earlier on 26 February 1943 B-24 41-23734 'Night
Died 16 April 1943
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Lieutenant James Hardin. Co-Pilot, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4124122 'Missouri Sue. ' Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA). AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster/ PH
Died 16 April 1943
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Lieutenant James Leary. Navigator, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4124122 'Missouri Sue. ' Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA). Earlier on 26 February 1943 B-24 41-23734 'Night Ra
Died 16 April 1943
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Second Lieutenant Thaddeus Hawkins. Bombardier, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4123874 'Ball O' Fire, Jr. ' Some crew members had baled out when the plane exploded blowing some crew clear. Prisoner of
Died 16 April 1943
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Sergeant Donald Bonnom. Waist Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4123732 'Liberty Lass. ' Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 16 April 1943
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Staff Sergeant Paul Kirken. Ball Turret Gunner / Tail Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4123732 'Liberty Lass. ' Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA). Note: Losses and NARA spell l
Died 16 April 1943
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Staff Sergeant Paul Logan. Waist Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4123732 'Liberty Lass. ' Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 16 April 1943
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Staff Sergeant Richard Guess. Radio Operator, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4124122 'Missouri Sue. ' Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA). AM/ PH
Died 16 April 1943
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Staff Sergeant Ronald Nelson. Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4124122 'Missouri Sue. ' Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA). . Earlier on 26 February 194
Died 16 April 1943
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Staff Sergeant Stephen Hegedus. Ball Turret Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4124122 'Missouri Sue. ' Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA). ABMC; MACR 15703, Losses of the 8th and
Died 16 April 1943
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Staff Sergeant T Kilmer. Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4124122 'Missouri Sue. ' Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA). Earlier on 26 February 1943 B-24
Died 16 April 1943
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Staff Sergeant Walter Race. Tail Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in Action (KIA) 16 April 1943. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4123732 'Liberty Lass. 'Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. SSgt. Walter C. Race was born 18 Jan
Died 16 April 1943
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Technical Sergeant Archibald Crump. Top Turret Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4124122 'Missouri Sue. ' Crashed into Bay of Biscay. According to Stewart pilot Fleenor was flying an H model B24 which
Died 16 April 1943
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Technical Sergeant Herbert Daly. Top Turret Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4123874 'Ball O' Fire, Jr. ' Some crew members had baled out when the plane exploded blowing some crew clear. Daly wa
Died 16 April 1943
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Technical Sergeant James Barnes. Top Turret Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Shot down 16 April 1943 in B-24 #4123732 'Liberty Lass. ' Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA). Air Medal w 2/Oak Leaf Cluster (awarde
Died 16 April 1943
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U-BOAT PENS U-BOAT PENS.
Locations: BREST (Primary) LORIENT/KEROMAN (Primary)
Mission date: 16 April 1943
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Captain Leroy Carpenter. Fighter Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Assigned to 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Freelance mission to Kbely. A/C struck by flak while strafing Praha-Kbely airdrome, Czechoslovakia. When last heard from he was south of t
Died 16 April 1945
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Captain Robert Holmes. Fighter Pilot, Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. Killed in Action (KIA) crashed near Prague in P-51 #4463214
Died 16 April 1945
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Lieutenant Delmar Ford. Pilot, 361st Fighter Group. Killed in Action (KIA) P-51 44-15663 'Baby Doll' Crashed near Pocking
Died 16 April 1945
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MARSHALLING YARDS FREELANCE MISSION MARSHALLING YARDS RAIL BRIDGE RAIL BRIDGE RAILROAD BRIDGE MARSHALLING YARDS.
Locations: LANDSHUT REGENSBURG REGENSBURG REGENSBURG EAST REGENSBURG WEST STRAUBING STRUABING/PLATTING
Mission date: 16 April 1945
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Master Sergeant Leroy Young. Gunner, 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars. B-17 #423213 ditched in North Sea due to mechanical failure on 16 August 1943. Returned to base. Shot down 16 September 1943 in B-17 #423079. Prisoner of War (POW). POW
Died 16 April 1976
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Homer Bigart. , 303rd Bomb Group "Hell's Angels". Journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, who in 1942 was invited to become a war correspondent, one of eight journalists known as The Writing 69th, sent to the UK to fly with the US Arm
Died 16 April 1991
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Lieutenant Colonel Myles Coolidge. Co-Pilot, 467th Bomb Group.
Died 16 April 1998
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Lieutenant Colonel George Harris. Commander, 384th Bomb Group. Assigned to the 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron on Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho, Special Orders #362, as Squadron Commander, per Group Historian memo dated 3 January 1943. 19 combat mission
Died 16 April 2003
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Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) Louis Brenner. Radio Operator, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 16 April 2007
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Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) Richard Robertson. Radio Operator, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 16 April 2007
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Second Lieutenant Robert Borst. Bombardier , 466th Bomb Group. Evaded (EVD) Shot down on 8/15/44 in B-24 Ramblin Wreck #4128932 Crashed at Gelderingen
Died 16 April 2014
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Andrew Banko. Tail Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 16 April 2015
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First Sergeant (1st Grade) Peter Ruplenas. Photographer, 486th Bomb Group. Peter Ruplenas attended South Boston High School. While living in South Boston, "Rupy" taught Sunday school and ran track. He received many track and field awards and ran
Died 16 April 2016
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