Martin G Bacon Jr
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
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Added by: Bill Bacon 6/26/2014
Object Number - UPL 22601 - Sgt Martin G Bacon, Jr, 91st Bomb Group
Shot down 20 December 1942 in B-17 41-24432 'Danellen' while serving as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner. Killed in Action (KIA). Shot down by Major 'Pips' Piller, JG26. Crashed in Bernieres-Tosny, France. First American aircraft to crash in Normandy. Parts of aircraft are on display in Museum de Tlosny, Les Andelys, France. Proprietor of museum, Jean Erisay, returned Martin's lighter to family in May 2001.
Purple Heart
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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: Danellen
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 401st Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 20 December 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
16 December 1918 | ||
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
20 December 1942 | Killed when aircraft was attacked by German fighters and crashed near Tosny, France. | |
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Buried |
Remains repatriated after the war to th United States. |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 3-Dec-2014. Edited KIA and Burial events per "Losses of the 8th & 9th AIr Forces' Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE and MACR 5381.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5381, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Hey and Bishop p.54,
