John A Ball Jr
Military ROLL OF HONOURKilled in Action (KIA) Crashed 23 November 1942 in B-17 41-24506 'The Shiftless Skonk' while serving as Navigator. Aircraft crashed near Watford/Leavesden on returning from a mission. Plane had been attacked by fighters. At rest at the Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: The Shiftless Skonk
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 324th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 23 November 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Killed on Mission (KOM) |
Leavesden Aerodrome, Watford, Hertfordshire WD25 7BZ, UK | 23 November 1942 | Killed when severely damaged aircraft returned from aborted mission to St. Nazaire and crashed into a field at Watford/Leavesden, UK |
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Buried |
25 November 1942 | Cambridge American Cemetery, Plot D, Row 3, Grave 27 | |
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Born |
Mississippi |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 2-Dec-2014. Edited crash location per "Losses of the 8th & 9th AIr Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.
Lee Cunningham 7-Nov-2014. "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. One by Bishop and Hey, p. 49