John Barry
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Airplane Instrument Mechanic | 490th Bomb Group
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Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Airplane Instrument Mechanic | 490th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 490th Bomb Group
Member of Bullard Crew
Member of Primus Crew
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Power Turret and Gunsight Mechanic | 490th Bomb Group
Ralph Franke was a passenger on the last flight of the 43-37776. He was killed when it crashed on the 27th of September 1944.
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Flight Engineer | 490th Bomb Group
Member of Primus crew
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 490th Bomb Group
Member of Primus crew
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Radio Operator | 490th Bomb Group
Member of Primus crew
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Left Waist Gunner | 490th Bomb Group
Member of Primus crew, Air Gunner
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Airplane Armorer-Gunner | 490th Bomb Group
Member of the Primus Crew
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...
Squadron
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...
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...
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | St. Cloud, MN | 3 October 1918 |
Enlisted | St. Cloud, MN | 10 February 1941 |
Died | Elmside Farm, Nailstone, UK | 27 September 1944 |
The B-17 he was piloting crashed on a night training mission |
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Buried | Arlington National Cemetery | 10 October 1949 |
Arlington National Cemetery |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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12 December 2020 05:13:35 | 466thHistorian | Changes to highest rank |
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HIs rank is on his gravestone |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
12 December 2020 05:12:55 | 466thHistorian | Changes to biography, events and place associations |
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http://www.ww2enlistment.org/index.php?page=directory&rec=1996744 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
16 March 2015 15:59:48 | usxpat | Changes to events and media associations |
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Find A Grave Memorial# 15436105 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:20:10 | 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 |