William Scott
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Object Number - UPL 56534 - 2nd Lt William Scott draft registration card.
Assigned to 68BS, 44BG, 8AF USAAF. TDY to 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Ploesti 1-Au-43 in B-24 42-40995 'Satans Hellcats'; A/C set afire and crashed after target. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 2416/3147
2Lt Scott along with 1Lt Girard remain unrecovered as yet.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today (Nov. 30, 2022) that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant William Scott, 21, killed during World War II, was accounted for Nov. 28, 2022.
Awards: DFC, 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: 44th Bomb Group 68th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-727991
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Satan's Hell Cats
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 68th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Florence American Cemetery, Tavarnuzze, Italy
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Pathway
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
13 June 1922 | Son of William H. and Cornelia Scott. | |
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Enlisted |
13 March 1942 | Newark, New Jersey | |
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Died |
1 August 1943 | ||
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Buried |
Tablets of the Missing Florence American Cemetery and Memorial Florence, Italy | ||
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Based |
1 August 1943 | Assigned to 68BS, 44BG, 8AF USAAF. | |
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Other Draft registration card |
Aviation cadet, Maxwell AAF, Montgomery, Alabama |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3147
