Ellis Albert Kunkle

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-38738.jpeg UPL 38738 A Crew of the 527th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group, Poses For The Photographer At An 8Th Air Force Base In England On 25 June 1944.


Information provided by Mervyn Wilson, 379th BGA historian.

Official caption via Fold 3 wrongly states that the crew is from the 524th Bomb Squadron.

Object Number - UPL 38738 - A Crew of the 527th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group, Poses For The Photographer At An 8Th Air Force Base In England On 25 June 1944.

Assigned to 527BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Mannheim in 43-38092; A/C disintegrated after hit by flak in bomb bay. Crashed Ludwigshafen. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 8845



Awards: PH.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 379th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron

Missions

  • Date: 9 September 1944

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Salem, OR 20 June 1920 Son of Guy D Kunkle and Mae Wayne [Savage] Coleman

Enlisted

Portland, OR 18 June 1943 Portland, Oregon

Died

Ludwigshafen, Germany 9 September 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Mannheim in 43-38092; Disintegrated after hit by flak in bomb bay. Crashed Ludwigshafen. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 8845

Based

Kimbolton 9 September 1944 Assigned to 527BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF.

Buried

Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN Re-Interred Fort Snelling National Cemetery Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN Plot 7974, Section C-4
Eugene, OR
Lane County, OR Ellis and his brother Vernon were living with their mother Mae and stepfather Homer Patton.

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 8845 / MACR 8845; 379th Bombardment Group Anthology, pg 321 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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