Eldon Clarence Frobish

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-48049.jpeg UPL 48049 1st Lt Eldon C Frobish, 93BG.

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Object Number - UPL 48049 - 1st Lt Eldon C Frobish, 93BG.

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.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 93rd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 36182223
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32245254
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19176766
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16060729
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19103418
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Chatsworth, IL 11 December 1920 Son of Clarence and Agnes [Hawthorne] Frobish.

Enlisted

Peoria, IL 15 September 1942 Peoria, Illinois

Died

Off Wilhelmshaven 4 November 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Misburg in B-24 42-109815; Killed in Action (KIA) 4-Nov-44 MACR 10359

Buried

Netherlands American Cemetery Tablets of the Missing Netherlands American Cemetery Margatten, Netherlands

Based

Killed in Action (KIA)

Hardwick 4 November 1944 Assigned to 409BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF.

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Sources

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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