Wendell Ansel Biggers

Military
media-13089.jpeg UPL 13089 1st Lt Wendell Biggers, navigator, and de Havilland DH 98 Mosquito PR XVI NS635 'Patches' 653rd BS, 25th BG, 8th AF, Watton. Robert Lee Collection

USAAF Photo.

Object Number - UPL 13089 - 1st Lt Wendell Biggers, navigator, and de Havilland DH 98 Mosquito PR XVI NS635 'Patches' 653rd BS, 25th BG, 8th AF, Watton.

Assigned to 653BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF.





Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 653rd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Crew Cheif

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: Mosquito
  • Nicknames: Patches
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 653rd Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Creek County, OK 10 September 1920 Son of Walter and Elzora [Jackson] Biggers.

Enlisted

San Diego, CA 18 July 1942 San Diego, California

Other

Commisioned

6 September 1943

Other

Discharged USAAF

6 January 1946 Honourable discharge.

Died

Oregon 17 July 2007 Salem, OR

Buried

Guaje Pines Cemetery, Los Alamos, Los Alamos County, NM 22 July 2007 Guaje Pines Cemetery Los Alamos, Los Alamos County, New Mexico

Buried

City View Cemetery, Salem, Marion County, OR Memorialised City View Cemetery Salem, Marion County, Oregon

Based

Watton Assigned to 653BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF.

Revisions

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ContributorEmily
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Sources

Removed source information added by Wattonman from biography

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ContributorWattonman
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Sources

Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.

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ContributorWattonman
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Sources

Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII", Schiffer Publishing, 2011. page 113 & 177.

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ContributorAAM
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Sources

Aerial Intelligence for the 8th Air Force, pg 57 (photo) / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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