Lewis L Anderson

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media-14142.jpeg UPL 14142 Louis L Anderson

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Object Number - UPL 14142 - Louis L Anderson

Killed in Action (KIA). Plane crashed on takeoff. B-24 #4295120 'Hookem Cow'

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Hookem Cow/Betty/Stinky
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Died

Hainford, Norwich, Norfolk NR10, UK 14 April 1945 Killed in Hainford, Norfolk, when the B24 "Hookem Cow" crashed shortly after takeoff.

Born

Sedgwick, Kansas

Buried

Plot E Row 3 Grave 52

Other

Commemorated

Osage County, KS, USA Memorial stone.

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Sources

http://eastangliamemorials.blogspot.co.uk/
American Battle Monuments Commission

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458th website & Page 272 of the book LIBERAORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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