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Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-13253.jpeg UPL 13253 93rd Bomb Group Roll of Honor at Hardwick Airfield Memorial Museum.

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Object Number - UPL 13253 - 93rd Bomb Group Roll of Honor at Hardwick Airfield Memorial Museum.

Entire crew died when their plane crashed in fog during takeoff at Hardwick on 19 December 1944 in an attempt to deliver air support to ground forces in Belgium during Battle of the Bulge. Killed in Action (KIA). KIS.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 640th Bomb Squadron, 409th Bomb Group.

409th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Ninth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
The insignia of the 93rd Bomb Group.

93rd Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

The wreck of a B-24 Liberator of the 93rd Bomb Group that crashed on take off near Aldeburgh, 19 December 1944. Image via Glenn Tessmer, 93rd Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: '19/12/44 Aldeburgh, Norfolk, crash on t/o.' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Crash site. Taken about 1 hour after crash. Mission was then scrubbed. Just off end of south runway. Lead aircraft 93BG at Hardwick, Eng. Probably Dec 15-23, 1944. Note weather! The exact date of the crash can be verified in 2nd A.D/ news letters. I can

42-50597

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Beaver's Baby
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Died

Hardwick, Norfolk, UK 19 December 1944 B24 42-50597 crashed in fog during takeoff

Born

Fayvetteville, Tennessee

Buried

Plot F Row 4 Grave 61

Revisions

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Sources

American Battle Monuments Commission
http://eastangliamemorials.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/hardwick-roadside-cro…
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/AARmonthly/Dec1944O.htm
http://www.8thafhs.com/get_one_mission.php?mission_id=1743

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American Battle Monuments Commission
http://eastangliamemorials.blogspot.co.uk/

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ABMC / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 6142 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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