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BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX MOTOR VEHICLE FACTORY MARSHALLING YARDS MOTOR VEHICLE FACTORY MARSHALLING YARDS.
Locations: BIELEFELD BRUNSWICK/BUSSING HAMM HANNOVER/HANOMAG MUNSTER
Mission date: 22 October 1944
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Staff Sergeant Harold Boling. Radio Operator / Photographer, 305th Bomb Group Can Do. Killed in Action (KIA). Killed in the collision of two B-17's in poor weather over Thurleigh on return from mission.
Died 22 October 1944
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Colonel John Wright. Intelligence Officer, 306th Bomb Group The Reich Wreckers. 16 April 1942 he volunteered for war service. He went on active duty as a captain in the USAF and was ordered to Officers' Training School. In June 1942, he was sent to t
Died 22 October 1974
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Captain Jacob Epting. Pilot, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Jacob Epting is listed as Jake Jr in the US 1940 census and his Father as Jake. NARA’s WWII Enlistment records have him as Jacob. Jacob/Jake Jr graduated from Tupelo High School in 1
Died 22 October 1988
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Technical Sergeant Barkev Hovsepian. Radio Operator, 466th Bomb Group. Flew 35 missions and 3 fuel haul missions to Patton's army in Spet 1944. Crash landed at Manson after preparing to ditch in channel. In a B-24, the R/O had to concentrate on the
Died 22 October 1997
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Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) Oakie Triplett. Gunner, 466th Bomb Group. (Crew #118-25 per SO#33)
Died 22 October 2002
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First Lieutenant Milton Hinman. Pilot, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 22 October 2003
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First Lieutenant Charles Seth. Navigator, 466th Bomb Group. Damaged by flak and fighters and landed in Sweden on 6/21/44 in B-24 Lovely Lady's Avngr #4440093 INT
Died 22 October 2013
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