Alfred P Archambeau

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-5494.jpeg UPL 5494 This photograph was taken soon after they'd arrived in the UK. They started flying missions the next day.

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Object Number - UPL 5494 - This photograph was taken soon after they'd arrived in the UK. They started flying missions the next day.

Assigned target Berlin. Shot down by fighters 29 April 1944 in B-24 #42-7510 'El Lobo. ' Plane crashed in wooded area outside of Dinklage, Germany. Killed in Action (KIA)

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The insignia of the 392nd Bomb Group.

392nd Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

The damaged tail of a B-24 Liberator nicknamed "El Lobo (The Wolf)" of the 392nd Bomb Group Handwritten caption on reverse: '20/12/43 C, 152. 152/RF WD154. 392BG B-24 after heavy flak at Brememn 12/20/43.' Printed caption on reverse: '27267 USAF - England. After "dishing it out" in a hectic mission over Occupied Europe, this B-24 Liberator bomber of the U.S. Army 8th Air Force proved it could "take it" as well by safely returning to its base in Britain in spite of the serious damage to the tail structure.

42-7510

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: El Lobo
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 579th Bomb Squadron 2101st Engineer Fire Fighting Platoon

Events

Event Location Date Description

Died

29 April 1944

Born

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Buried

Massachusetts

Other

Unknown

Germany 29 April 1944

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Capitalized the words "Waist Gunner" in the "Role/job" field.

 

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4461 / MACR 4461, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces,

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