Vincent Bullard
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 490th Bomb Group
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Louis James Deputy
Military
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Vincent Bullard Crew 490th BG - 849th BS Standing Left to Right: Pappy King (GCC), William C. Vinal (N), Louis J. Deputy (CP), Vincent R. Bullard (P), Frederick F. Greggs (B), Clarence R. Stingert (BTG) Kneeling Left to Right: Melvin L. Daiss (NTG), Foster E. Ailor (WG), Glenn W. Ladd (FE), John S. Gaskell (TG), Hubert F. Myers (R/O)
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Michael Primus, Louis Deputy, Roy Griswould Arlington National Cemetery
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Michael H Primus Crew
Member of Bullard Crew
Member of Primus Crew
Service
Units served with
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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. ... -
490th Bomb Group
Group
The 490th Bomb Group, like the 486th and 487th Bomb Groups transitioned from flying B-24 Liberators to B-17 Flying Fortresses, which were used in combat missions from late August 1944. Based at Eye, Suffolk, the Group were focused in the early months... -
849th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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43-37776 Heavenly Body
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 20/5/44; Kearney 31/5/44; Grenier 7/6/44; Assigned 849BS/490BG Eye [W8- ] 11/6/44; on routine navigation night flight 27/9/44 with Mike Primus, Co-pilot: Louis Deputy, Navigator: Rich Herman, Bombardier: Bob Simmons, Flight engineer...
Associated Place
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Eye
Military site : airfield
Eye air base was not a Class A base but was constructed to a less demanding standard by the 827th and 859th Battalions of U.S. Army Engineers in 1943 and was finished in early 1944. Unusually, a group of its hardstandings were on the other side of the...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Laurel, DE | 4 January 1918 |
| Lived in | Laurel, DE | October 1940 |
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216 W 8th Street |
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| Died | near Ibstock, UK | 27 September 1944 |
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Louis served as a First Lieutenant and Co-Pilot on B-17G "Heavenly Body" #43-37776, 849th Bomber Squadron, 490th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, during World War II. He resided in Sussex County, Delaware prior to the war. B-17G #43-37776 was on a night cross-country training exercise. After turning, just North of Nailstone, near Ibstock, the B-17's nose dropped, and the port wing struck the ground. The machine was completely destroyed by fire and explosion. Sadly, all on board were killed. Louis was "Killed In Action" in this crash during the war. He was awarded the Purple Heart. |
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| Buried | Arlington National Cemetery | 10 October 1949 |
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Arlington National Cemetery |
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Revisions
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| 12 December 2020 02:28:00 | 466thHistorian | Changes to middlename, role, events, person associations and unit associations |
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https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2238/images/44003_02_00... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 16 March 2015 15:41:04 | usxpat | Changes to highest rank, biography, events, place associations and media associations |
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Find A Grave Memorial# 8768948 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:19:16 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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490th Bomb Group Unit Personnel / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |
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