William A Whitman
MilitaryPersonal discussions and pictures from my grandfather, William A. Whitman, engineer and top turret gunner on B-17 41-24585 "Wulfe-Hound."
Shot down 12 December 1942 in B-17 41-24585 'Wulfe-Hound' while serving as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner. Evaded. Participated in 3 missions (See Biography events)
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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
- Nicknames: Wulfe Hound
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 12 December 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 6 December 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 18 November 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Assigned to Aircraft |
Biggs Field, TX 79918, USA | 23 August 1942 | Assigend as the Engineer/Top Turret Gunner of B-17F 41-24585 "Wulfe Hund", 303BG/360BS at Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas |
Other Arrived at Station |
Molesworth, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28, UK | 16 October 1942 | Arrived on B-17F 41-24585 "Wulfe Hund",303BG/360BS at Molesworth, UK |
Other Mission #1 TSGT William A. Whitman, w/B-17F 41-24585, 303BG/360BS |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 18 November 1942 | Served as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner on B-17F 41-24585 "Wulfe Hund", 303Bg/360BS on a mission to bomb the U-Baot pens at St. Nazaire, France. RTB OK. |
Other Mission #2 TSGT William A. Whitman, w/B-17F 41-24585, 303BG/360BS |
Lille, France | 6 December 1942 | Served as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner on B-17F 41-24585 "Wulfe Hund", 303Bg/360BS on a mission to bomb the carriage and wagon works at Lille, France. RTB OK |
Other Evaded Capture |
12 December 1942 - 25 May 1943 | Evaded capture and returned to England 25-May-43. His evasion is doumneted on Escape & Evasion Report #32 which may be viewd at: http://media.nara.gov/nw/305270/EE-32.pdf | |
Other Mission #3 TSGT William A. Whitman, w/B-17F 41-24585, 303BG/360BS |
Rouen, France | 12 December 1942 | Served as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner on B-17F 41-24585 "Wulfe Hund", 303Bg/360BS on a mission to bomb the railroad marshalling yards at Rouen, France. The aircraft received battle damage and the pilot made a crashlanding in a field in France. TSGT Whitman managed to evade capture. |
Revisions
Personal discussions and pictures from my grandfather, William A. Whitman, engineer and top turret gunner on B-17 41-24585 "Wulfe-Hound."
Personal discussions and pictures from my grandfather, William A. Whitman, engineer and top turret gunner on B-17 41-24585 "Wulfe-Hound."
Lee Cunningham 7-Dec-2015. Added Mission #3 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission REport of 12-Dec-42: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/006.pdf
Lee Cunningham 7-Dec-2015. Added Mission #2 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission REport of 6-Dec-42: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/005.pdf
Lee Cunningham 7-Dec-2015. Added Mission #1 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission REport of 18-Nov-42: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/002.pdf
Lee Cunningham 7-Dec-2015. Addded Assigned to Aircraft event pere 303Bg website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Pual F. Flickenger crew page: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-360-flickenger.html
Lee Cunningham 7-Dec-2015. Addded Assigned to Aircraft event pere 303Bg website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Pual F. Flickenger crew page: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-360-flickenger.html
Lee Cunningham 7-Dec-2015. Added mission participation clause to Summary Biography and made connection to all mission participations based on my research of 303BG website Mission Reports, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/
Lee Cunningham 10-Nov-2014, "Losses of the 8th & 9th AIr Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; National Archives Records Administration (NARA) Escape & Evasion Report #32 http://media.nara.gov/nw/305270/EE-32.pdf
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey p. 53