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Second Lieutenant Allen Green. Navigator, 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs.
Died 24 April 1900
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Locations: ERDING (Primary) FRIEDRICHSHAFEN (Primary) FR
Mission date: 24 April 1944
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Second Lieutenant John Lynch. Bombardier, 384th Bomb Group. Shot down over Oberpfoffenhofen, Germany on 24 April 1944 in B-17 #4238158. Killed in Action (KIA). PH
Died 24 April 1944
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Sergeant Eugene Gallup. Left Waist Gunner, 392nd Bomb Group. Assigned to 578BS, 392BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Leipheim, due to mechanical failure, B-24 41-28688 could not maintain formation or altitude. Baled out around Freiburg. Kil
Died 24 April 1944
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Sergeant Robert Higgins. Waist Gunner, 384th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) in B-17G 42-107058, White Angel, 24 April 1944, Mission #315 to Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
Died 24 April 1944
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First Lieutenant Cecil McKinney. Pilot, 306th Bomb Group The Reich Wreckers. He reported to the ETO on 12 Apr 1944. He transferred back stateside to be trained in B-29s and on 24 Apr 1945 on a training mission over the Gulf of Mexico. Plane crashed due
Died 24 April 1945
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First Lieutenant Leigh Slates. Pilot, 17th Bomb Group. 1st Lieutenant Leigh Slates was born December 24, 1919. His next of kin were his wife, Glennadine Slates, and his parents, Leigh and Almira Slates. He was from Palmyra, Missouri. On April 24, 1945, h
Died 24 April 1945
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Staff Sergeant Robert Bickford. Military Occupation specialty 756-Radio Operator/Mechanic, 384th Bomb Group.
Died 24 April 2001
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Sergeant Clarence Barnes. Tail Gunner, 384th Bomb Group. Shot down 16 September 1943 in B-17 #42-5849 'Hell's Belles II. Missing Air Crew Report #722. 'Prisoner of War (POW). Was in Stalag Luft 17B POW
Died 24 April 2004
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Second Lieutenant Arthur Cwiklinski. Fighter Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Assigned to 334FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down on strafing mission in P-51 44-13314 near Beauvais when his section was bounced by 15 plus Bf109's, 18-Aug-44. Abandoned A/C and evade
Died 24 April 2008
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Staff Sergeant Henry Jurgens. Left Waist Gunner/Ball Turret gunner, 392nd Bomb Group. S/sgt Henry F. Jurgens, Left Waist Gunner, parachuted from his crippled B-24 Liberator, tail # 42-50758 "YMCA Flying Service II" on the eve of his 15th combat
Died 24 April 2008
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Second Lieutenant William Groseclose. Fighter Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Assigned to 335FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Lt Groseclose was apparently shot down while flying his P-51D Mustang 44-14432 on 11-Sep-44 when the 4th Fighter Group was bounced by 30+ Messerschm
Died 24 April 2011
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