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Mission date: 31 March 1943
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Staff Sergeant Stephen Gogolya. Flight Engineer; Top Turret Gunner, 305th Bomb Group Can Do. Killed in Action (KIA). March 31, 1943 on returning from mission in B-17 41-24617 'Southern Comfort' crashed. The crew bailed out over Essex. Gogolya wa
Died 31 March 1943
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First Lieutenant Peter Lehman. Fighter Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Son of the governor of New York City. Assigned to 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Crashed during a training excercise near Littlebury, Essex on 31 Mar 1944 in P-51B #43-6844. KIFA.
Died 31 March 1944
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Mission date: 31 March 1945
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Corporal Edward Johnson. Gunner, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed when B24J 42-51241 was apparently caught in propwash, and was thrown over on its back on the way back from mission 920. The crew did not have time to escape the aircraft before
Died 31 March 1945
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Corporal Farris Williams. , 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed when B24J 42-51241 was apparently caught in propwash, and was thrown over on its back on the way back from mission 920. The crew did not have time to escape the aircraft before it st
Died 31 March 1945
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Corporal Jay Martin. , 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed when B24J 42-51241 was apparently caught in propwash, and was thrown over on its back on the way back from mission 920. The crew did not have time to escape the aircraft before it started
Died 31 March 1945
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Corporal Leon Gray. , 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed when B24J 42-51241 was apparently caught in propwash, and was thrown over on its back on the way back from mission 920. The crew did not have time to escape the aircraft before it started
Died 31 March 1945
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Flight Officer Robert Tobakin. Navigator, 96th Bomb Group. KIA near Altenburg in B-17 #4338935. March 31, 1945 flak was intense and efficient and Lt. Murphy's #2 engine burst into flames and he had to feather #1 . Flames swept back engulfing the radi
Died 31 March 1945
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Lieutenant Paul Ostrander. Pilot, 78th Fighter Group. Killed in Action (KIA) 31 March 1945 in AC #4410485 AM w/ 9 Oak Leaf Cluster
Died 31 March 1945
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Second Lieutenant Haig Horasanian. , 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed when B24J 42-51241 was apparently caught in propwash, and was thrown over on its back on the way back from mission 920. The crew did not have time to escape the aircraft bef
Died 31 March 1945
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Second Lieutenant Marvin Tucker. Pilot, 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed when B24J 42-51241 was apparently caught in propwash, and was thrown over on its back on the way back from mission 920. The crew did not have time to escape the aircraft
Died 31 March 1945
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Sergeant Oliver Jones. , 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed when B24J 42-51241 was apparently caught in propwash, and was thrown over on its back on the way back from mission 920. The crew did not have time to escape the aircraft before it start
Died 31 March 1945
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Sergeant Ray Stone. , 93rd Bomb Group The Traveling Circus. Killed when B24J 42-51241 was apparently caught in propwash, and was thrown over on its back on the way back from mission 920. The crew did not have time to escape the aircraft before it started
Died 31 March 1945
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Captain George Green. Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Captain George D. Green is famous for his daring piggyback rescue of Major Pierce McKennon, his Squadron CO, in a P-51 Mustang on 18 March 1945. Captain George D. Green was flying his assigned P-51D Mustang
Died 31 March 1979
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Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) Richard Billhartz. Aircraft Electrical Specialist, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 31 March 1987
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Technical Sergeant Robert Siavage. Radio Operator Gunner, 306th Bomb Group The Reich Wreckers. He was assigned to Earl Tunnell crew. He flew the first raid to Germany on 27 Jan 1943 with Col. Frank A. Armstrong. Shot down 6 March 1943 in B-17F 42-5378, 3
Died 31 March 1988
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Edith Poland. , . Edith was only 19 in May 1945, when she started her diary and lived in Liverpool. Edith was a ‘doughnut girl’, volunteering for The American Red Cross. Her duties included meeting G.I.s coming secretly into Liverpool by boa
Died 31 March 1989
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Lieutenant Colonel Sidney Woods. Pilot; Deputy Commanding Officer, 479th Fighter Group. Lt. Colonel Sidney Woods joined the Army in the cavalry in 1939 and transferred to flight school, earning his wings in September 1941. He was flying with the
Died 31 March 1989
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First Lieutenant Enoch Jungling. Fighter Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Assigned to 335FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF 63 missions, 304:55 hours combat time. Post War: Completed College degree at Linfield College in McMinnville Ore, and Married Margaret Dunwoodie 1946. US
Died 31 March 1993
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First Lieutenant Philip Barnhart. Fighter Pilot, 355th Fighter Group. Left Boston aboard a converted cruise ship along with 1st Lt William 'Bill' Preddy as casual[unassigned] officers supervising a boatload of replacement troops. Due to the batt
Died 31 March 2016
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