David Burns Roper Sr

Military

Assigned to 833BS, 486BG, 8AF USAAF. ETD





Awards: DFC (4OLC), WWII Victory, EAME (3 Battle stars), American Defense.

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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

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: supertitious aloysius
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
A B-17 Flying Fortress (4N-B, serial number 43-37835) of the 486th Bomb Group flies above the cloud with other Fortresses during a mission. A censor has obscured the tail marking. Image via Hodges.
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron 833rd Bomb Squadron 834th Bomb Squadron 835th Bomb Squadron
A B-17 Flying Fortress (4N-M, serial number 43-38031) flies through anti-aircraft fire over Berlin. Handwritten in corner of image: 'Berlin 6/8/44.' Image via Harry Miller.
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: blue grass girl
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group

Places

Aerial photograph of Sudbury airfield looking south west, the bomb dump is to the upper right of the airfield, 29 February 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC188. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Acton

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Laurens County, SC 8 November 1917 Son of David Burns Roper Sr.

Enlisted

Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina 30 December 1940 Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina

Died

Laurens, SC 26 January 1994

Buried

Forest Lawn Cemetery, Laurens, Laurens County, SC Forest Lawn Cemetery Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina

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South Carolina WW2 veterans roster and Find a Grave

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South Carolina WW2 veterans roster

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit History