Pierce Simon Buckner

Military

S/Sgt Pierce Buckner was Tail Gunner in B26 #41-17961 on a local training flight 27 December 1943, when, due to mechanical failure, it crash-landed at RAF Toome, in Northern Ireland. The five crewmen returned safely but the aircraft was totally destroyed.

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Robert Cecil Fry

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: No 3 Combat Crew Replacement Center 322nd Bomb Group 452nd Bomb Squadron Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron (No 3 Combat Crew Replacement Center)
  • Service Numbers: 18038921 at enlistment, then O-728069
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Instructor (Pilot)

Vernon Richard Hedges

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: No 3 Combat Crew Replacement Center Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron (No 3 Combat Crew Replacement Center)
  • Service Numbers: 19094562 at the time of enlistment, later O-737420
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot / Pilot

John G Latiloais

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: No 3 Combat Crew Replacement Center Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron (No 3 Combat Crew Replacement Center)
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Engineer

Joseph Donald Weaver

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: No 3 Combat Crew Replacement Center 386th Bomb Group 554th Bomb Squadron Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron (No 3 Combat Crew Replacement Center)
  • Service Numbers: 14150971
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator / Gunner

Aircraft

41-17961

  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron (No 3 Combat Crew Replacement Center)

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Alabama, United States 2 May 1912

Enlisted

Fort McClellan, Alabama, United States 7 August 1942

Other

Involved in training accident

Toome, Antrim, Northern Ireland 27 December 1943 as a Tail Gunner on board B-26 Marauder Serial 41-17961. He and the four other men on board were safe and returned to duty.

Died

Fulton County, Georgia, United States 23 May 1973
Jefferson County, Alabama, United States

Buried

Remlap Methodist Church Cemetery, Blount County, Alabama, United States

Revisions

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Corrected first name, which is Pierce instead of Pierre...

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces Vol. I, p. 442