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BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY CHEMICAL PLANT AMMONIA PLANT AIRFIELD AMMONIA PLANT AMMONIA PLANT LIQUID OXYGEN PLANT.
Locations: HENIN LITTARD LA LOUVIERE (Primary) ST TROND (Opportunistic) TERTRE (Primary) TILLER/LIEGE (Primary) WILLEBROECK (Prima
Mission date: 25 August 1944
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Technical Sergeant Ellwill Baysinger. Engineer/Top Turret Gunner, 384th Bomb Group.
Died 25 August 1962
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First Lieutenant William Brooks. Navigator, 466th Bomb Group. St. Dizier, France 24 Mar 1944; Brunswick, Germany 8 April 1944; Hamm, Germany 22 April 1944; Leipheim, Germany 24 April 1944; Paderborn, Germany 26 April 1944; Siracourt, France 27 April 1944;
Died 25 August 1975
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Thomas Dewlaney. Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 25 August 1978
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Major Harry Downing. Fighter Pilot, Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. [ NOTE : Major Harry L. Downing is often mistaken for Captain Harry L Downing Jr - O-437990 who was a pilot in the 373rd Fighter Group/411th Fighter Squadron - shot down on 17 June 1944 in P-4
Died 25 August 1991
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Technical Sergeant Victor Ciganek. Radio Operator, 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars. Shot down 26 July 1943 in B-17 #42-3119 (possibly "Frisco Jenny', better known as "Destiny's Tot"). Plane ditched in North Sea. Returned to
Died 25 August 2001
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Second Lieutenant Roderick Rice. Co-Pilot, 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs.
Died 25 August 2002
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