John Cannell
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 379th Bomb Group
Shot down 16 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30001. Killed in Action (KIA).
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Shot down 16 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30001. Killed in Action (KIA).
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 379th Bomb Group
Shot down 16 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30001. Killed in Action (KIA).
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 379th Bomb Group
Shot down 16 August 1943 in B-17 #4230001. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 379th Bomb Group
Shot down 16 August 1943 in B-17 42-30001 'Mary Ann' Prisoner of War (POW).
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Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 379th Bomb Group
Shot down 16 August 1943 in B-17 #4230001. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 379th Bomb Group
Shot down 16 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30001. Killed in Action (KIA).
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 379th Bomb Group
Shot down 16 August 1943 in B-17 #4230001. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 379th Bomb Group
Shot down 16 August 1943 in B-17 #4230001. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 379th Bomb Group
Shot down 16 August 1943 in B-17 #4230001. Evaded. (MACR 1297 incorrectly lists his last name as 'Bades')E&E from Corbeil, France to England (via a fishing boat from Brest, France)
AMPH
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 379th Bomb Group
Shot down 16 August 1943 in B-17 #4230001. Killed in Action (KIA).
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Group
The 379th Bomb Group (H) (heavy), based at Kimbolton, flew more sorties than any other Bomb Group in the Eighth Air Force and dropped a greater bomb tonnage than any other Group. The B-17 Flying Fortress Group was awarded two Distinguished Unit...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 25/3/43; Smoky Hill 3/4/43; Dow Fd 15/4/43; Assigned 526BS/379BG [LF-E] Kimbolton 23/6/43; Missing in Action Le Bourget 16/8/43 with Raymond H. Bidwell, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Cannell, Ball turret gunner: Tom Johnson...
16 August 1943
This mission consists of two elements of B-17s despatched to bomb the German airfields of Le Bourget (Paris), Poix and Abbeville, France. The first element is a combined force of 180 B-17s from: 91BG (21); 92BG (17); 303BG (20); 305BG (20); 306BG (20);...
Military site : airfield
Planned for RAF use, Kimbolton airfield was built by W and C French Ltd. in 1941. The airfield was increased in size to accommodate a full US heavy Bomb Group, and the first such unit to us it was the 91st Bomb Group, who arrived in September 1942....
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Barrington, Illinois, USA | |
Killed in Action (KIA) | France | 16 August 1943 |
Buried | Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial | |
Raymond Bidwell rests at Plot A, Row 6, Grave 34 |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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11 January 2020 03:33:19 | jmoore43 | Changes to unit associations |
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Added a connection to 8th AF. |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
05 October 2018 14:43:07 | ED-BB | Changes to service number, biography, awards, events, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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ABMC website |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:22:08 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1297 / MACR 1297; 379th Bombardment Group Anthology, pg 275 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |