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BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX MARSHALLING YARDS FIGTHER-BOMBER MISSION OIL REFINERY.
Locations: DINSLAKEN HEIDEN OSNABRUCK RHEINE ST.VITH-KARLSRUHE-DARMASTADT-KOBLENZ STERKRADE/HOLTEN
Mission date: 22 January 1945
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First Lieutenant Floyd Hass. Fighter Pilot, 366th Fighter Group.
Died 22 January 1945
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Flight Officer James Prendergast. Co-Pilot, 467th Bomb Group. Killed in Tommy Thumper II over England near Norwich when the engine failed during a steep turn on a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 22 January 1945
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Flight Officer John McArthur. Pilot, 467th Bomb Group. Killed in Tommy Thumper II over England near Norwich when the engine failed during a steep turn on a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 22 January 1945
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Flight Officer Otto Stokes. Navigator, 467th Bomb Group. Killed in Tommy Thumper II over England near Norwich when the engine failed during a steep turn on a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 22 January 1945
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Sergeant Floyd Erickson. Waist Gunner, 467th Bomb Group. Killed in Tommy Thumper II over England near Norwich when the engine failed during a steep turn on a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 22 January 1945
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Sergeant Franklin Wassow. Assistant Armorer/Gunner, 467th Bomb Group. Killed in Tommy Thumper II over England near Norwich when the engine failed during a steep turn on a practice mission. All crew were killed. Sgt Wassow (born Wussow) was the child of t
Died 22 January 1945
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Sergeant John O'Malley. Waist Gunner; Radio Operator, 467th Bomb Group. Killed in Tommy Thumper II over England near Norwich when the engine failed during a steep turn on a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 22 January 1945
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Sergeant Leonard Rostkowski. Waist Gunner, 467th Bomb Group. Killed in Tommy Thumper II over England near Norwich when the engine failed during a steep turn on a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 22 January 1945
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Sergeant William Walker. Waist Gunner, 467th Bomb Group. Killed in Tommy Thumper II over England near Norwich when the engine failed during a steep turn on a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 22 January 1945
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Staff Sergeant Clarence Rachford. Gunner; Armorer, 467th Bomb Group. Killed in Tommy Thumper II over England near Norwich when the engine failed during a steep turn on a practice mission. All crew were killed.
Died 22 January 1945
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Jack Towner. Nose Gunner/Waist Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 22 January 1976
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Corporal Ronald Hodges. Flexible Gunner, 384th Bomb Group. Assigned to the 384th Bomb Group, 546th Bomb Squadron on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #73 dated 4 April 1945, Andrew Gordon Lovett Crew, no combat missions.
Died 22 January 1992
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Technical Sergeant Marcus Shook. Radio Operator, 390th Bomb Group. POW Crashed near Warsaw on 9/18/44 in B-17 'I'll Be Seeing You' #4338175. Shook was shot in both legs descending in parachute and captured by SS troops. Hospitalized in PO
Died 22 January 1995
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Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) Albert Nix. Ball Turret Gunner, 458th Bomb Group. WIA on mission to Brunswick, Germany on 8 May 1944
Died 22 January 1998
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Robert Bell. Ball Turret Gunner, 34th Bomb Group. Robert Bell enlisted in the Air Corps. Sent overseas, he was assigned to the 34th Bomb Group / 391st Bomb Squadron, flying on 10 missions on the Harold E. Dwyer crew.
Died 22 January 2003
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