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Emerson Leslie Davies

Military

Emerson Davies' photo from the newspaper when he graduated from gunnery school. Newspaper is Montana Standard in Butte, Montana and is dated October 11, 1942

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Emerson and his brother Ray both joined up to fight in the war - one in the Air Force and one in the Navy.

Service

People

Franklin Barrett

Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 42-30176 'Assassin. ' Prisoner of War (POW).
John Moyer

Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Lester Schwab

Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
John Sundberg

Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 42-30176 'Assassin. ' Evaded.

Units served with

95th Bomb Group

Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August...

Aircraft

42-30176 'Assassin'

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne, WY 22/4/43; Smoky Hill, KS 28/4/43; Walla Walla, WA 7/5/43; Smoky Hill 25/5/43; Presque Island 6/6/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-P] Framlingham 5/6/43; 335BS [OE-P] Horham 15/6/43; 12m, Missing in Action Regensburg 17/8/43 with John...

Events

Event	Location	Date
Born
Prisoner of War (POW)	Belgium	17 August 1943
Enlisted
Enlisted

Revisions

Date	Contributor	Update
03 February 2021 22:16:06	Kathy	Changes to middlename, nickname, service number, biography, events, person associations and media associations
Sources
Draft cards, newspaper records and official Air Force reports regarding the crash of their B-17.
Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:09:04	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
MACR 401 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database