Omer Lyle Young
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
"Iowans of the Mighty Eighth", Chapter 19 "Killed in Action", by Charles D Taylor
Object Number - UPL 22271 - Omer Young - Cedar Rapids, 379th BG, KIA
Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 10 x combat missions.
Failed to Return (FTR) in #42-31083. A/C exploded in mid-air near Downham Market, England. Killed in Action (KIA)
Awards: AM, PH.
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-805776
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-694353
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35579373
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-755018
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier / Navigator / Bombardier Instructor
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15103734 / O-692968
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 91st Bomb Group 94th Bomb Group 324th Bomb Squadron 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Tenny Belle
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Sara Jane
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: The Lost Angel
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 482nd Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron 525th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 11 April 1944
- Date: 10 April 1944
- Date: 9 April 1944
- Date: 28 March 1944
- Date: 27 March 1944
Places
Official War Department document/Open Source.
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Rattlesnake Bomber Base
- Site type: Military site
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Born |
Palo, IA | 15 November 1919 | Son of Elmer Guy and Elizabeth M [Farrell] Young. |
|
Enlisted |
Cedar Rapids, IA | 26 October 1942 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
|
Based |
Pyote Army Airfield | 23 September 1943 - 8 December 1943 | B-17 Flying Fortress crew training |
|
Based |
Kimbolton | 20 February 1944 - 11 April 1944 | Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. |
|
Died Killed in action |
Barroway Drove, Downham Market PE38 0AJ, UK | 11 April 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) in #42-31083. A/C exploded in mid-air near Downham Market, England. Killed in Action (KIA) |
|
Buried |
12 April 1944 | Interred Cambridge American Cemetery | |
|
Based |
Snettisham | 19 February 1944 | Intensive gunnery training |
|
Buried |
Mount Calvary Cemetery Cedar Rapids, Linn County, IA | Re-Interred Mount Calvary Cemetery Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa |
Revisions
Lyle's Obituary lists the numerous bases where he trained to become a flight engineer.
Bibliography: [Betz, Frank L. and Kenneth H. Cassens editors]. 379th Bombardment Group (H) Anthology, Volume One: November 1942-July 1945. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, 2000, p. 302.
1940 US Census, Hazelton, Iowa - ED 10-11, Sheet 2B, lines 46-48 - Elmer G. YOUNG Family
Correction to middle initial from :
- http://www.findagrave.com;
- "Iowans of the Mighty Eighth", Chapter 19 "Killed in Action", by Charles D Taylor
Combat Chronology; 379th Bombardment Group Anthology, pg 300 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
