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INVASION SUPPORT INTERCEPT.
Locations: Dieppe, France NORTHERN IRISH COAST
Mission date: 19 August 1942
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AIRFIELD AIRFIELD.
Locations: GILZE-RIJEN FLUSHING (Primary) WOENSDRECHT (Primary)
Mission date: 19 August 1943
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Second Lieutenant Lauren Quillen. Pilot, 303rd Bomb Group "Hell's Angels". Shot down 19 August 1943 in B-17 #425392 'Stric Nine. ' Plane crashed into North Sea. Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 19 August 1943
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Second Lieutenant Robert Solverson. Bombardier, 303rd Bomb Group "Hell's Angels". Shot down 19 August 1943 in B-17 #423192 'City of Albuquerque. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
Died 19 August 1943
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Captain Richard Claeys. Pilot, 306th Bomb Group The Reich Wreckers. Aged 30, Richard Claeys joined the US Army in early summer of 1941 and was discharged in the Fall for being over age. He then decided to enlist in the RCAF, which he did on 28 November 19
Died 19 August 1946
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Virginia Irwin. , . In (her own?) words from her standard biography after the war for the St Louis Post-Dispatch: 'Virginia Irwin joined the Post-Dispatch staff in 1932 as a file clerk in the reference room. Soon she was contributing small articles
Died 19 August 1980
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Ben Wdowicki. Nose Gunner, 466th Bomb Group. Also served during the Korean War. Retired from the USAF with the rank of Master Sergeant
Died 19 August 1995
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Master Sergeant Hiram Stauffer. Military Occupation Specialty 502-Administrative NCO, 384th Bomb Group.
Died 19 August 1997
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Wayne Vestal. Ball Turret Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 19 August 1998
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Technical Sergeant Mark Meyer. Top Turret Gunner, 384th Bomb Group. Shot down 20 December 1943 in B-17 #42-29935 'CAT'S SASS'. Plane ditched in The North Sea. Prisoner of War (POW). Missing Air Crew Report #1725. POW
Died 19 August 1999
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Forrest Ashby. Nose Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 19 August 2001
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Sydney Hovde. Left Waist Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 19 August 2012
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