Frank Wilby Ellis Jr
Military
Black Sunday - Michael Hill
Object Number - UPL 47845 - 389th Bomb Group's Pictorial Review, p.13 featuring Tom Conroy, Jack Dieterle, and Frank Ellis.
21 Sept 43 en route from Hethel to Tunisia, landed with low fuel and only 2 engines working in B24 42-40701. All crew returned.
Killed in crash of TB-47B "Stratojet" #50-0076 on 18 December 1957 while serving as pilot. Also killed were Maj. Thomas M. Esmond (Aircraft Commander) and Capt. Frank F. Harradine (Flight Surgeon).
DFC & 1 OLC, AM & 3 OLCs, CR & 1 OLC.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15045876 / 0-325990
- Highest Rank: Major General
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Liberty Belle
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Berka, al Birkah
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Kentucky, USA | 20 December 1916 | |
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Died |
Palomar Mountain, CA | 18 December 1957 | Crash of TB-47B "Stratojet" #50-0076 |
Revisions
Philip Ardery, Bomber Pilot: A Memoir of World War II (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky: 1978) passim.
National Cemetery Interment Control Card; Army & Air Force Officer Registers;
389th BG Roster / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
