Sheldon L Adler
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Back row, left to right: Staff Sergeant Owen Killborn, Lieutenant Sheldon Adler, Lieutenant Caulk, Technical Sergeant Paul Miller, Technical Sergeant Samuel Dragoon and Lieutenant Marshall Lewis.
Front row left to right: Staff Sergeant Dwight O Foster, Lieutenant Herbert Minard, Staff Sergeant Thomasset and Staff Sergeant Albert Spencer. Note: Picture was incorectly labeled on Albert Spencer. Should be John R. Spencer.
Also The story is a bit different. It is not known for sure if the plane was shot down. The mission was to transport fuel to tanks in the desert for Patton. John Spencer (Not Albert) and the communications officer were excused from the mission at the last minute granted shore leave privileges. The plane took off but never returned from its mission and crew members from other returning B-24’s reported a large explosion in the sky in the general direction of "Nobody’s Baby". It is not typical for a plane to erupt in an explosion if shot down so it was surmised that the stainless steel gas cans being transported in the fuselage had ignited from static electricity or other means.
Rex Spencer (caption edit)
Object Number - UPL 22744 - Crew of B-24 41-29439 shot down on 29 September 1944. Back row, left to right: Staff Sergeant Owen Killborn, Lieutenant Sheldon Adler, Lieutenant...
B-24H #41-29439. Crashed at Lioncourt, near St. Quentin, FR, on return from gas trucking mission to St. Dizier, FR. Crew of six all KNO. All received a group burial at the Jefferson Barracks Cemetery.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-701934
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Gallopin Ghost
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Died |
Saint-Quentin, France | 29 September 1944 | |
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Buried |
Lemay, MO, USA | Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Lemay St. Louis County Missouri, USA Plot: Section 82, Site 125 | |
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Born |
New York, NY, USA | ||
| New York, NY, USA | 37 Fort Washington Avenue |
Revisions
Contributorjmoore43
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Sources
Corrected a typo in the "Summary biography" - "Jefferson" was misspelled.
ContributorAAM
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Sources
Combat Supplement, Unit History.; Losses of the 8thAF, vol.4 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
