Billy Bennett Gomillion

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media-39656.jpeg UPL 39656 S/Sgt Billy Bennett Gomillion

Photo via DBrown Find A Grave ID #46894197

Object Number - UPL 39656 - S/Sgt Billy Bennett Gomillion Photo via DBrown Find A Grave ID #46894197

Assigned to 862BS, 493BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) in B-24 42-94812 'Little Warrior' 29-Jun-44; Flak hit caused conflagration, flames from cockpit to rear of bomb bay. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 6721.



Awards: PH.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 493rd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 493rd Bomb Group 862nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32707915
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 493rd Bomb Group 862nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11082314 / O-818558
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 493rd Bomb Group 862nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13171280
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 493rd Bomb Group 862nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-693976
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 493rd Bomb Group 862nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39297646
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Nose Gunner

Aircraft

The B-24H Liberator, 42-94812, named, Little Warrior, in the 493rd Bomb Group in flight with its engines aflame. A veteran has handwritten on the reverse: 'To Roger Freeman, from a friend, Clifford Stocking. I took the picture 493rd BG, 862nd Sqd.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: - Little warrior
  • Unit: 490th Bomb Group 493rd Bomb Group 850th Bomb Squadron 861st Bomb Squadron

Missions

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Sulphur Springs, TX 5 November 1923 Son of Ernest Wade and Ila Fay [Ward] Gomillion.

Enlisted

Dallas, TX 21 December 1942 Dallas, Texas

Died

Fallersleben, Germany 29 June 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) in B-24 42-94812 'Little Warrior' 29-Jun-44; flak hit caused conflagration, flames from cockpit to rear of bomb bay. KIA MACR 6721

Buried

Fallersleben, Germany 30 June 1944 Interred Fallersleben forest cemetery, Germany

Based

Debach 29 June 1944 Assigned to 862BS, 493BG, 8AF USAAF.

Buried

Crestview Memorial Park Wichita Falls, Wichita County, TX Re-Interred Crestview Memorial Park Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 6721, http://493bgdebach.co.uk/roster_list.php

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