9th Air Force
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B-26 Marauder
Assigned to 451BS, 322BG, 9AF USAAF. Missions flown 24. Failed to Return (FTR) Nimoyceques, FR with Herb Price crew. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 1216
Group
The 322nd Bombardment Squadron (Medium) was activated on 19-Jun-1942 at MacDill Field, Florida with B-26B Marauder aircraft. In late September 1942 the unit moved to Drane Field, Florida. The Ground echelon sailed for the UK aboard the Queen Elizabeth...
Squadron
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 322nd Bomb Group
Born at Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, Lt. Bunker had been stationed in England with the Ninth Air Force.
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Military | Staff Sergeant | Gunner | 322nd Bomb Group
Assigned to 451BS, 322BG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Nimoyceques, FR in B-26 41-18075. Prisoner of War(POW) MACR 1216
Awards: AM (2OLC), POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 322nd Bomb Group
Assigned to 451BS, 322BG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Nimoyceques, FR in B-26 41-18075. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 1216
Awards: AM (2OLC), PH.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 322nd Bomb Group
Assigned to 451BS, 322BG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Nimoyceques, FR in B-26 41-18075. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 1216
Awards: AM (2OLC), PH.
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 322nd Bomb Group
Assigned to 451BS, 322BG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Nimoyceques, FR in B-26 41-18075. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 1216
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 322nd Bomb Group
Assigned to 451BS, 322BG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Nimoyceques, FR in B-26 41-18075. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 1216
Awards: AM (2OLC), PH.
Military site : airfield
The base was known as Great Saling when construction – by US Army engineers – began in 1942 but was renamed Andrews Field in honour of the memory of Gen. Frank M. Andrews, who was killed when the B-24 he was travelling in crash-landed in Iceland on 3...
Event | Location | Date |
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Assigned | Andrews Field, Dunmow, Essex | 1943 |
Assigned to 451BS, 322BG, 9AF USAAF. |
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Crashed | 62250 Landrethun-le-Nord, France | 5 November 1943 – 5 November 1943 |
Failed to Return (FTR) Nimoyceques, FR with Herb Price crew. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 1216 |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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05 November 2020 22:50:39 | Al_Skiff | Changes to nicknames, description, events, unit associations and place associations |
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11 June 2018 20:43:01 | RHNelson | Changes to nicknames |
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MACR 1216 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:40:01 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 1216 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |