James E McDonald
Military
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UPL 27903
Tsgt. James MacDonald 351st BG 509BS
Lt. Robert K. Potter
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James McDonald served as a flight engineer/top turret gunner with the 509th Bomb Squadron of the 351st Bomb Group, flying missions out of Polebrook. He completed 34 missions and received the Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters and the Purple Heart.
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 508th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Transit Belle
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 509th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Torchy Tess
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 509th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 351st Bomb Group 509th Bomb Squadron 511th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.351st.org/ken.harbour/