Elmo E Maiden
Military
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UPL 23798
1LT Elmo Maiden
Pilot
466th BG - 786th BS Elmo Maiden Collection
Pilot
466th BG - 786th BS Elmo Maiden Collection
466th BG Historian
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People
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 13 January 1945
- Date: 3 January 1945
- Date: 1 January 1945
- Date: 27 December 1944
- Date: 24 December 1944
Places
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Based |
Attlebridge | 5 October 1944 - 4 April 1945 | |
Other Landed |
Great Ashfield, Bury Saint Edmunds IP31, UK | 18 October 1944 | Landed at Great Ashfield due to weather and/or fuel shortage after returning from a mission to Cologne. |
Other Mission #17 |
Le Bourget, France | 27 December 1944 | Lost engines #3 and #4 and only had 1/2 power on #2. This happened about 10 miles SE or Verdun. Made a low speed landing without brakes at Le Bourget Airfield. Used up all the run way, killed a jackrabbit and snapped off the nose gear before coming to a stop. B-24J-5-DT #42-51352 |
Born |
Kansas City, KS, USA | ||
Other Graduated |
Lawrence, KS, USA | BS - Mechanical Engineering Kansas University Played varsity basketball, football and baseball under legendary coach Phog Allen |
Revisions
Contributor466thHistorian
Changes
Sources
466th BG Archives - Mission Report for 22 Oct 1944
NARA Research done by Brad Sullivan
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum Membership List, July 2000