8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 7/3/44; Gr Island 29/3/44; Dow Fd 7/4/44; Assigned 339BS/96BG [QJ-A] Snetterton 8/4/44; Missing in Action Berlin 8/5/44 with Harry Eye, Co-pilot: Leland Baker, Ball turret gunner: Bill Latta[died of wounds in hospital] (3 Killed in Action); Navigator: Joe McElroy, Bombardier: Carl Thinnes, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Chase, Radio Operator: Bill Pierson, Waist gunner: W.C. Parnell, Waist gunner: Jack McIlraith,Tail gunner: Leroy Chamberlain (7 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crash landed two miles W of Wolfenbuettel, nine miles S of Brunswick, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4575.
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Group
The 96th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses to targets across occupied Europe from May 1943 to April 1945.
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Squadron
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 96th Bomb Group
Assigned to 339BS, 96BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Berlin in B-17 42-102482. Shot down, crashed west of Wolfenbuettal, Germany. 8-May-44 Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 4575
Awards: PH.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 #42102482. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 #42-102482, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 96th Bomb Group
Assigned to 339BS, 96BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Berlin in B-17 42-102482. Shot down, crashed west of Wolfenbuettal, Germany. 8-May-44 Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 4575
Awards: PH.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Assigned to 339BS, 96BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Berlin in B-17 42-102482. Shot down, crashed west of Wolfenbuettal, Germany. 8-May-44 Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 4575
Awards: PH.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 #42102482. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Jack McIlraith served as a waist gunner with the 339th Bomb Squadron of the 96th Bomb Group. Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 #42102482. Prisoner of War (POW) at Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12. Flew on Harold Eye crew.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 #42-102482, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 #42102482. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 #42-102482, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military site : airfield
Intended to be an RAF bomber base, construction of Snetterton Heath started in Autumn 1942 but continued until mid-1943, because it was extended after allocation as an Eighth Air Force bomber base. It had eventually three concrete runways, 50...
Event | Location | Date |
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Failed to Return (FTR) | Fümmelse, Wolfenbüttel, Germany | 8 May 1944 |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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29 May 2020 07:29:26 | kstrykerAK | Changes to unit associations |
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Snetterton Falcons II: The 96th Bomb Group in World War II by Robert E Doherty & Geoffrey Ward, Second Edition with Errata & Supplemental Information, Taylor Publishing, 1996. pages 137, 146, 293 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
19 October 2015 21:11:17 | mmc14 | Changes to person associations |
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from the son of a crewmember |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:40:09 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 4575 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |