Samuel N Blatchford
MilitaryUploaded
Shot down 16 September 1943 in B-17 #4229901. Evaded.
Died 2008.
Buried at Arlington National Cemetery
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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: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Lawton, Oklahoma, États-Unis | ||
Buried Evaded |
16 September 1943 |
Revisions
of his real name: Norwood Manuelits Beeastiligar.
His mother, Pauline Manuelito was the great-granddaughter of the great warrior Chief "Manuelito" who fought Kit Carson in the Navajo War and led his people in exile to the current Navajo reservation.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1347 / Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum Membership List, July 2000; MACR 1347; 379th Bombardment Group Anthology, pg 279 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database