Rogers M Edgar

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-15063.jpeg UPL 15063 Memorial on Green Lane, Redenhall, Suffolk, erected by Peter Kent, who was a boy at the time of the crash.

Removed Homer Gentry, who did not die in this crash. According to his headstone application, accessed via ancestry.com, he died a year earlier and was a member of the 705th Squadron, not the 706th.

Object Number - UPL 15063 - Memorial on Green Lane, Redenhall, Suffolk, erected by Peter Kent, who was a boy at the time of the crash.

Killed when 2 planes collided over base as they were coming in for landing after mission to Regenberg.

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Units served with

A flight of B-24 Liberators of the 446th Bomb Group fly in formation above the clouds.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Little King
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group 706th Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

19 January 1924

Died

Redenhall, Harleston, Norfolk IP20, UK 11 April 1945

Buried

New Martinsville, WV, USA Northview Cemetery New Martinsville Wetzel County West Virginia, USA

Revisions

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Correcting crew list; private document taken from website no longer available.

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Find A Grave Memorial# 133647261
ancestry.com: headstone application
Fold3: casualty lists
History of the 446th Bomb Group, Harold Jansen, p275

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446th unit history / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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