8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Arthur Acevedo
Military
Shot down by fighters and crashed near Orleans, FR on 7 January 1944 in B-24D #42-63977 'Los Angeles City Limits. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
Service
Units served with
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389th Bomb Group
Group
The 389th Bomb Group, known in more familiar terms as "the Sky Scorpions", flew strategic bombing missions in B-24 Liberators from Hethel, England. They also sent detachments to join bases in North Africa at Benghazi No. 10, Libya, between 3 July 1943... -
567th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
567th Bombardment Squadron, 24 December 1942 - 13 September 1945 ...
Aircraft
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42-63977 'Los Angeles City Limits'
B-24 Liberator
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Los Angeles, California | 19 May 1917 |
| Enlisted | Los Angeles, California | 10 April 1942 |
| Killed in Action (KIA) | France | 7 January 1944 |
| Died | 7 January 1944 | |
| Buried | Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial | |
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Plot B, Row 10, Grave 68. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 05 June 2020 14:23:18 | Andycole0 | Changes to service number, highest rank, biography, awards, events and unit associations |
| Sources | ||
American Battle Monument's Commission www.abmc.gov |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:03:59 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1854 / MACR 1854, 8th AF Losses, WWII memorial / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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