Collier P Gay

Military

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Units served with

A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.

486th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

43-38149

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Winged Virgin
  • Unit: 834th Bomb Squadron 487th Bomb Group 486th Bomb Group

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Blakely, Georgia

Buried

Blakely, Georgia

Revisions

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Contributorjmoore43
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Sources

Added an association to the A/C #43-38149 listed on the 486th BG website.

https://www.486th.org/BS834/Gay.htm

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ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / daughter