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Michael H Primus

Military

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Member of Primus crew

Service

Units served with

  • 490th Bomb Group

    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

    849th Bomb Squadron

    Squadron

Aircraft

  • 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...

Events

Event Location Date
Buried

Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington
Arlington County
Virginia, USA
Plot: Section 34 Sit 4757
Nationality
American
Nickname
Not yet known
Service numbers
O-810215
Highest rank
Second Lieutenant
Role/job
Pilot
Awards
Not yet known

Revisions

Date Contributor Update
16 March 2015 15:59:48 usxpat Changes to events and media associations
Sources

Find A Grave Memorial# 15436105
Date Contributor Update
27 September 2014 18:20:10 AAM AAM ingest
Sources

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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