Adrian Leonard Shutes

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-37626.jpeg UPL 37626 Lt Vernon Arneson crew, 614BS, 401BG, 8AF.

Rear Row L - R : Sgt Clennie C Shults, S/Sgt Armand L Provencher, Unk, Sgt Adrian L Shutes, Sgt Edward Trambitsky, Unk.

Front row L-R : 2Lt Vernon A Arneson, Unk, Unk, 2Lt George J Gilmore Jr.

Unknowns - S/Sgt Frederic E Webb, S/Sgt Richard G Schmidt, 2Lt's John H Dean and Jerome E Kleinburg.

Object Number - UPL 37626 - Lt Vernon Arneson crew, 614BS, 401BG, 8AF. Rear Row L - R : Sgt Clennie C Shults, S/Sgt Armand L Provencher, Unk, Sgt Adrian L Shutes, Sgt Edward...

Assigned to 614BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Osccherlsleben in B-17 42-38002; hit by flak, A/C set upon by fighters, hit 6'' below left armpit by 20mm cannon shell frag. 22-Feb-44. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 2661



Awards: PH

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19083977 / O-741875
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Philadelphia, PA 23 December 1906 Son of Leonard Davis and Emma Evelyn [Hileman] Shutes. Husband of Florence Marie [Buhler] Shutes.

Enlisted

Philadelphia, PA 2 October 1942

Died

Brunswick, Germany 22 February 1944

Buried

Alvesse, Germany 23 February 1944 Interred Alvesse cemetery

Buried

Ivy Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA Re-Interred Ivy Hill Cemetery Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, PA

Buried

Re-Interred by Red Cross.

Based

Deenethorpe 22 February 1944 Assigned to 614BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2661, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces, http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=836

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