Kieran P Culliton
Military ROLL OF HONOURStanding L-R; Sgt Kieran P. Culliton, 2Lt Wallace R. Malone, 2Lt Jack H. Heuser, 2Lt Hulet Mack.
Kneeling L-R; Sgt Harry F. Stricklan, Sgt Robert L. Steeves, Sgt Albert R. Eibel, Sgt Thomas A. Strohaker, F/O James E. Sheets.
Killed in Action (KIA). Member of Wallace Malone's crew Had to land in the North Sea (notified Air Sea Rescue) plane broke in half on landing on the water. Strohker, the pilot Malone and the Bombardier Heuser were rescued. Culliton's name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery.
Awards: AM, PH.
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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: 446th Bomb Group 707th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-?
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Flixton
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Cambridge American Military Cemetery
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Enlisted |
Cambridge, MA | 28 November 1942 | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Died |
North Sea | 27 December 1944 | Ditched in the North Sea (notified Air Sea Rescue) plane broke in half on landing on the water. Killed in Action (KIA) |
Born |
Worcester County, MA | ||
Buried |
Cambridge American Cemetery Tablets of the Missing | ||
Based |
Bungay | 27 December 1944 | Assigned to 707BS, 446BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Added Kieran P Culliton to the Roll of Honour in the American Air Museum at IWM Duxford.
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=929&mtch=1&cat=WR26&t…
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56288931/kieran-p-culliton
Combat Sup and 446th BG Book page 231 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia