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Staff Sergeant Harland Bird. Top Turret Gunner, 322nd Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA). Wounded by shells on B-26 mission to Montdidier, France. Died on operating table shortly after return.
Died 30 October 1943
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Technical Sergeant Charles Mauldin. Flight Engineer; Top Turret Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in recalled mission. Accident in landing 30 October 1943 in 'Pregnant Portia' B24#42-40246 'Thundermug' PH
Died 30 October 1943
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Technical Sergeant Gerald Weinberg. Radio Operator, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed in Action (KIA) 30 October 1943 Accident in landing 30 October 1943 in B24#42-40246 'Thundermug'. Previously interned in Turkey after Ploesti raid 1
Died 30 October 1943
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BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX OIL REFINERY OIL REFINERY MARSHALLING YARDS COVER MISSION NAVAL INSTALLATIONS OIL REFINERY MARSHALLING YARDS INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX BOMB
Mission date: 30 October 1944
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Steve Bordano. Ball Turret Gunner, 34th Bomb Group. He spent time as the Ball Turret gunner of the Peterson Crew on the " Gotta Haver" and primarily on "Wee Willies Wolves" crash landed in Belgium in either
Died 30 October 1965
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Second Lieutenant Albert Tatkin. Assistant Engineering Officer, 384th Bomb Group. Engineering Officer served in the 544th Squadron and the 546th Squadron.
Died 30 October 1982
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Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) William Estep. Flight Engineer, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 30 October 1995
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Captain Robert Adamina. Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. Robert Adamina served as a pilot with the 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group. He was shot down on 14 May 1943 in P-47C (serial number 41-6198). He became involved in a dogfight with FW190's in
Died 30 October 1996
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Staff Sergeant Robert Metlen. Ball Turret Gunner, 96th Bomb Group. Shot down 20 October 1943 in B-17 42-30372 'Shack Rabbit III', a B-17 borrowed from the 413th BS. The underground passed him from Belgium through France to Spain. He was back in
Died 30 October 2007
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First Lieutenant Helen Pierson. Army Nurse, 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars. Lieutenant Helen Pierson was an army nurse based at the 163rd General Hospital at Wimpole Hall. She later married Major John D Davis, Commanding Officer of the 401st Bomb S
Died 30 October 2010
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