David Lloyd Butcher
Military
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FRE 5134
The insignia of the 545th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group.
Roger Freeman Collection
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
David Butcher was Tail Gunner on board B-17 #42-3235 "Lakanuki", shot down 4 July 1943 over France. Missing Air Crew Report MACR #3035. EVADED - Escape and Evasion Report #483.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16056228 at enlistment, then O-735948
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 6950609
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38130722
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15095103 at enlistment, then O-797275
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35327696
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
- Role/Job: Radio Operator, Radio Operator Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lakanuki
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 4 July 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Grafton Undermud
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Illinois, USA | 11 March 1918 | |
Enlisted |
Detroit, MI, USA | 21 August 1940 | Residence: Washtenaw County, Michigan Private, Air Corps |
Other Assigned |
Wendover, UT 84083, USA | 11 March 1943 | Assigned to the 384th Bombardment Group on Gowen Field (Boise, Idaho) Special Orders #70 dated 11 March 1943, Lawrence Wayne Myer Crew. Two combat missions. |
Other Evaded |
France | 4 July 1943 - 17 March 1944 | Bailed out of the crippled B-17 and landed near the crash in the Sarthe Department, France. Helped by French citizens and Resistance members, he was clothed, fed, sheltered and guided to Le Mans, Chenu, Tours, Paris, Toulouse, crossing the Franco-Spanish border on 23 February 1944. Arrived in Gibraltar on 17 March 1944 from where he left by plane to England on 19 March 1944. Escape & Evasion Report E&E 483. |
Died |
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States | 19 April 2004 |
Revisions
ContributorED-BB
Changes
Sources
MACR 3035
NARA WWII Enlistment Records
Escape & Evasion Report E&E 483
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4495 / MACR 4495, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=… / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database