Vincent Bullard
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 490th Bomb Group
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Military
Member of Bullard crew
Group
The 490th Bomb Group, like the 486th and 487th Bomb Groups transitioned from flying B-24 Liberators to B-17 Flying Fortresses, which were used in combat missions from late August 1944. Based at Eye, Suffolk, the Group were focused in the early months...
Squadron
Military site : airfield
Eye air base was not a Class A base but was constructed to a less demanding standard by the 827th and 859th Battalions of U.S. Army Engineers in 1943 and was finished in early 1944. Unusually, a group of its hardstandings were on the other side of the...
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Forker (Boomer), Missouri | 10 November 1916 |
Lived in | Meadville, Missouri | October 1940 |
Based | Eye | November 1944 |
Died | Bookfield, MO | 10 January 1985 |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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12 December 2020 00:23:50 | 466thHistorian | Changes to middlename, highest rank, role, events, person associations and place associations |
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https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2238&h=15791064... |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:09:42 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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490th Bomb Group Unit Personnel / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |