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George Fredrick Asprocolas

Military

  • John W. Gross Crew 95th BG - 336th BS Standing Left to Right: Guy E. Greene (R/O), William H. Isbell (WG/TOG), Arthur M. Mendias (FE), Max Rammel (TG), Ed Morrison (BTG) Kneeling Left to Right: Daniel A. Jarworski (N), George E. Asprocolas, (B), John W. Gross (P)

    John W. Gross Crew 95th BG - 336th BS Standing Left to Right: Guy E. Greene (R/O), William H. Isbell (WG/TOG), Arthur M. Mendias (FE), Max Rammel (TG), Ed Morrison (BTG) Kneeling Left to Right: Daniel A. Jarworski (N), George E. Asprocolas, (B), John W. Gross (P)

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Service

People

  • John Gross

    Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group

  • William Hamilton

    Military | Captain | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group

  • Cary Savage

    Military | Captain | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group

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Units served with

  • 95th Bomb Group

    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...

  • 336th Bomb Squadron

    336th Bomb Squadron

    Squadron

Aircraft

  • 42-106993

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Cheyenne 21/1/44; Kearney 22/1/44; Grenier 25/2/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-P/W] Horham 13/3/44; with J. M. Bastion; Co-pilot Frank Puckett Barbour; force landed France 22/6/44; with J.E. Hamilton force landed RAF Bentwaters, Sfk 6/10/44;121m...

  • 42-31867 'Go Getter'

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Denver 29/12/43; Kearney 12/1/44; with Wilmot Chamberlain force landed Morrison, FL 31/1/44; Memphis 19/4/44; Kansas City 20/4/44; Kearney 24/4/44; Presque Is 28/4/44; Grenier 30/4/44; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-P] Horham 2/5/44; battle damaged...

  • 42-31876 'Fireball' ' Fireball Red'

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Cheyenne 30/12/43; Gt Falls 3/1/44; Cheyenne 5/1/44; Kearney 13/1/44; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-Q] Horham 17/2/44; aborted after take off for Dusseldorf 9/9/44 with Bill Lahl, Co-pilot: Theo Bennett, Navigator: Maurice Schwartz (wia),...

  • 43-38281 KIMMIE KAR FOR 9

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Cheyenne 17/7/44; Kearney 25/7/44; Grenier 9/8/44; Assigned 326BS/92BG [JW-A] Podington 10/8/44; transferred 412BS/95BG [QW-Z] Horham 11/8/44; with F.W. Volz force landed Deblin, Poland 15/2/45; sal 1/3/45; 70m, Returned to the USA Bradley 21...

  • 43-38283

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Cheyenne 17/7/44; Kearney 25/7/44; Grenier 7/8/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-A] Horham 13/8/44; 336BS [ET-A]; with D.L. Pearson force landed Laon, Fr 30/12/44;42m, Missing in Action Ruhland 17/3/45 with Irwin Vermillion, Co-pilot: John...

  • 43-38469

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Cheyenne 7/8/44; Lincoln 17/8/44; Grenier 3/9/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-U] Horham 5/9/44; with T.C. Gibson force landed A-81 airfield on continent 20/5/45; 82m, Returned to the USA Bradley 24/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 26/6...

  • 44-8179 'CADET NURSE' aka 'YANKEE WOLF'

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Dallas 30/6/44; Langley 27/7/44; Dow Fd 22/8/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-L] Horham 25/8/44; 335BS [OE-T]; 344BS [BG-S] battle damaged Cologne 17/10/44 with John Miller, Bombardier: Art Scroggins, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Manuel...

  • 44-8210 Sweetheart of Seattle

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Dallas 11/7/44; Langley 8/8/44; Dow Fd 12/9/44; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-Z] Rougham 14/9/44; transferred 335BS/95BG [OE-J] Horham 11/44; with L.W. Jensen, Radio Operator: Paul Rupard, Waist gunner: - Olson [2wia] 24/2/45; 53m, RetUS,...

  • 44-8667

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Cheyenne 20/11/44; Hunter 13/12/44; Dow Fd 22/12/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-H] Thorpe Abbotts 7/1/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 28/12/45.

Missions

  • 689

    26 October 1944

  • 691

    28 October 1944

  • 698

    2 November 1944

  • 700

    4 November 1944

  • 702

    5 November 1944

  • 707

    9 November 1944

  • 712

    11 November 1944

  • 715

    16 November 1944

  • 725

    26 November 1944

  • 729

    29 November 1944

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Associated Place

  • Horham

    Military site : airfield
    Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group....

Events

Event Location Date
Born New York, NY 17 December 1916
Lived in Nyack, New York October 1940
Enlisted Atlantic City, NJ 21 February 1943
95th BG Combat Tour Horham Airfield, UK 26 October 1944 – 6 April 1945

31 Combat Missions
Died Edison, NJ 8 September 2007
Buried Woodbridge, NJ 12 September 2007

Saint James Cemetery and Mausoleum
Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA
Nationality
American
Nickname
Not yet known
Service numbers
Not yet known
Highest rank
First Lieutenant
Role/job
Bombardier
Awards
Not yet known

Revisions

Date Contributor Update
27 July 2020 23:12:44 466thHistorian Changes to middlename, highest rank, events, person associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations
Sources

https://95thbg.mmsw.eu/person/178
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2238&h=30337163...
http://www.ww2enlistment.org/index.php?page=directory&rec=578906
Date Contributor Update
27 September 2014 18:10:50 AAM AAM ingest
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://95thbg.org/95th_db_pages/left_formation_code/gethonoroll.php

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