Eugene R Hicks
MilitaryKilled In Action (KIA). B-24H 42-50345 shot down by flak, crashed in the English Channel off Zuydcoote, France on May 28, 1944 after all crew baled out. Had flown 17 missions with the Group. ABMC lists DOD as May 29, 1945. (All eight casualties in this crew have a legal death date of May 29, not May 28, and 1945, not 1944.)
Awards: PH.
Connections
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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: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 789442
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12121935
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14105132 / O-816318
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19101803 / O-702140
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14135085
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 28 May 1944
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Hombourg, Belgium
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Acton
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Died |
Off Zuydcoote, France | 28 May 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) Lutzendorf hit by flak in #3 engine near IP not able to keep up with formation abandoned over channel. KIA MACR 5389 |
Born |
Nebraska, USA | Son of Matt K and Edith L. [Pasewalk] Hicks. | |
Buried |
Tablets of the Missing Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial | ||
Based |
Sudbury | 28 May 1944 | Assigned to 832BS, 486BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
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https://www.fold3.com/image/310762492?terms=Eugene%20R%20Hicks
Mission 376: Battle Over the Reich, May 28, 1944 By Ivo de Jong
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56282049/eugene-r-hicks
ABMC http://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WWI…
'Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces. Volume 3. ETO Area - April 1944 - June 1944'. Bishop, Stan D & Hey, John A. Bishop Book Productions. 2009. ISBN 978-0-9547685-3-9
486th roster / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5389 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database