Marvin A Abrams

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Shot down in flames after fighter attacks and crashed near Einbeck, GR on a mission to Brunswick on 20 Feb 1944 in B-24H #42-7569 'Sky Wolf'. Killed in Action (KIA).

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51681) of the 453rd Bomb Group flies in formation with a fellow Liberator of the 453rd and and a pathfinder Liberator of the 445th Bomb Group. Image via Alan Rowsell.

445th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-7569

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Sky Wolf
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 701st Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Henryetta, Oklahoma 28 January 1923

Enlisted

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 28 October 1942

Died

20 February 1944

Buried

Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial Plot B, Row 38, Grave 18.

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

Germany 20 February 1944

Revisions

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Sources

American Battle Monument's Commission www.abmc.gov
National Archives and Records Administration.
Ancestry.com

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Sources

ABMC, MACR 2439 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2439 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database