Richard Eugene Rader
Military
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FRE 5133
The insignia of the 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group.
Roger Freeman Collection
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Shot down 24 April 1944 in B-17 #42-31346 'Shack Rabbit ' Evaded, MACR 4355. E&E Report #1102.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-704133
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18190125
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33419781
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator / Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18157650
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
Aircraft
Missions
Places
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Benitz, California | 8 February 1923 | |
Other Assigned |
Grafton Underwood, Kettering, Northamptonshire NN14, UK | 24 March 1944 | Assigned to the 384th Bombardment Group, 544th Bombardment Squadron on AAF Station 106 Special Orders & 65 dated 24 March 1944, Robert Harold Brown Crew, 2 combat missions. |
Other Evaded |
24 April 1944 - 22 August 1944 | The aircraft received a direct flak burst at 1201 hours 40 miles east of Paris; fire observed in nose with smoke coming out of cockpit; four chutes, only three opened; crashed SE of Cézanne, France. |
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Sources
E&E Report #1102
2016-02-22 Information was consolidated into this record from this duplicate file: http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/184760
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Changes
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4355, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=…