Lloyd Calcut
Military | Staff Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 93rd Bomb Group
Crew member 42-40610, flew on 1st Aug 43 Ploesti oil refinery raid, returning safely to Libya.
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Eldon Clarence Frobish
Military
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1st Lt Eldon C Frobish, 93BG.
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93rd Bomb Group Roll of Honor at Hardwick Airfield Memorial Museum.
Assigned to 409BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Misburg in B-24 42-109815; Killed in Action (KIA) 4-Nov-44 MACR 10359
Awards: AM (OLC), PH.
Service
People
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Richard Hurlburt
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 93rd Bomb Group
Crew member 42-40610, flew on 1-Aug-43 Ploesti oil refinery raid, returning safely to Libya. ... -
Lupe Lara
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 93rd Bomb Group
Assigned to 409BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Misburg in B-24 42-109815; Killed in Action (KIA) 4-Nov-44 MACR 10359 Awards: AM (OLC), PH. -
Robert Lee
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 93rd Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) 4 November 1944 PH -
Donald McArthur
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 93rd Bomb Group
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Frederick McKanna
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 93rd Bomb Group
Assigned to 409BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Misburg in B-24 42-109815; Killed in Action (KIA) 4-Nov-44 MACR 10359 Awards: PH. -
Robert Sager
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 93rd Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) 4 November 1944 AM w/ Oak Leaf Cluster/ PH -
Edward Spedding
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 93rd Bomb Group
Assigned to 409BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Misburg in B-24 42-109815; Killed in Action (KIA) 4-Nov-44 MACR 10359 Awards: AM (2OLC), PH.
Units served with
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8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945. ... -
93rd Bomb Group
Group
93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 1-March-1942 at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. On 15-May-1942 the Group moved to Ft. Myers, Florida to continue advanced flight training and also to fly anti-submarine patrols over the Gulf of Mexico; they... -
409th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-109815
B-24 Liberator
Associated Place
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Hardwick
Military site : airfield
Planned as an RAF bomber airfield, Hardwick was used first by the 310th Bomb Group, equipped with B-25 Mitchells. In December 1943, the B-24 Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group moved in, and remained until the end of the war, flying over 330 missions....
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Chatsworth, IL | 11 December 1920 |
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Son of Clarence and Agnes [Hawthorne] Frobish. |
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| Enlisted | Peoria, IL | 15 September 1942 |
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Peoria, Illinois |
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| Based | Hardwick | 1944 – 4 November 1944 |
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Assigned to 409BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Died | Off Wilhelmshaven | 4 November 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) Misburg in B-24 42-109815; Killed in Action (KIA) 4-Nov-44 MACR 10359 |
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| Buried | Netherlands American Cemetery | 1946 |
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Tablets of the Missing |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 23 February 2021 16:34:21 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, service number, highest rank, biography, awards, events, person associations, unit associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/29248091 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:08:48 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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ABMC MACR 10359 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 10359 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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