William D Orms

Military

Dad was shot down once 70 miles inside German lines in France. The plane landed and only needed a few parts to become flyable again. the French people hid the plane and Orms used his radio to order the parts and after fixing the plane, the pilot, one other crew member and Orms, the only ones that rode the plane down were helped by the French people to get the plane to a dirt road where they took off, flying over the heads of the German soldiers!. They made it back to England.



Air Medal w/Oak Leaf Cluster's; Purple Heart

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Units served with

A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Miami, Florida 24 August 1916

Died

8 July 2000

Buried

Miami, Florida

Revisions

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ContributorReddog1968
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486th Mission logs

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ContributorAAM
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Daughter Barbara / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia