Herbert Neal Riddle
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16060366 / O-665661
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Pretty Baby
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Darlin' Dolly
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 803rd Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: We Ain't Scared
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Fritz Blitz
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 24 June 1944
- Date: 25 May 1944
- Date: 1 May 1944
- Date: 28 March 1944
- Date: 16 March 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
22 April 1913 | ||
Enlisted |
21 May 1942 | ||
Other 95th BG Combat Tour |
4 July 1943 - 25 May 1944 | Appears to have taken about two months off from combat to train as a fight engineer 24 Dec 1943 - 3 March 1943 He flew 12 missions as a waist gunner and then 9 missions as a flight enginner/top turret gunner | |
Other Wounded In Action |
28 July 1943 | Received a penetrating wound by a 20mm cannon shell | |
Died |
3 May 1977 | ||
Buried |
6 May 1977 | Athens City Cemetery Athens, Limestone County, Alabama, USA | |
Born |
1441 Alabama Avenue |
Revisions
Added " / " in the "Role/job" field as a separator to aid readability.
http://www.ww2enlistment.org/index.php?page=directory&rec=4606546
https://95thbg.mmsw.eu/person/5624
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://95thbg.org/95th_db_pages/left_formation_code/gethonoroll.php