Vincent Bullard
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 490th Bomb Group
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Foster Eldon Ailor
Military
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Vincent Bullard Crew 490th BG - 849th BS Standing Left to Right: Pappy King (GCC), William C. Vinal (N), Louis J. Deputy (CP), Vincent R. Bullard (P), Frederick F. Greggs (B), Clarence R. Stingert (BTG) Kneeling Left to Right: Melvin L. Daiss (NTG), Foster E. Ailor (WG), Glenn W. Ladd (FE), John S. Gaskell (TG), Hubert F. Myers (R/O)
Member of Bullard crew
Service
Units served with
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490th Bomb Group
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... -
849th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Associated Place
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Eye
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...
Events
| 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 |
Revisions
| 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 |
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