Frank Delgado Perez

Military
media-13616.jpeg UPL 13616 Frank Delgado Perez of the 401st Bomb Group.

Image courtesy of Josie Navarro (Neice)

Object Number - UPL 13616 - Frank Delgado Perez of the 401st Bomb Group.

From 4 April 1944 to 7 October 1944, he flew 32 missions as a Ball Turret Gunner. On 6 June 1944, D-Day he and his crew flew to Caen, in order to bomb a nearby airfield. However, cloud cover prevented Perez's and 5 other aircraft from dropping their payloads.

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Units served with

Aircraft

Missions

570

  • Date: 25 August 1944

548

  • Date: 13 August 1944

530

  • Date: 8 August 1944
A mission log for Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst of the 91st Bomb Group, 3 August 1944 -15 December 1944. Image via Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst, 91st Bomb Group.

519

  • Date: 5 August 1944
A mission log for Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst of the 91st Bomb Group, 3 August 1944 -15 December 1944. Image via Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst, 91st Bomb Group.

512

  • Date: 3 August 1944

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Los Angeles , California 14 January 1924

Enlisted

Los Angeles, CA, USA 1 February 1943

Died

Seattle, WA, USA 16 January 2015

Revisions

Date
ContributorEmily
Changes
Sources

Missions details gathered from 401 BG, Obituary , , Enlistment Record

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self, http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=459

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