Athol Alonzo Strickland

Military

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Units served with

People

Aircraft

Missions

530

  • Date: 8 August 1944
A B-24 Liberator of the 492nd Bomb Group bombs a target near Hamburg. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'USAF- 492nd BG showing successful result on oil target near Hamburg, 6 Aug 1944.'

524

  • Date: 6 August 1944
B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 305th Bomb Group fly in formation.

514

  • Date: 4 August 1944

510

  • Date: 2 August 1944

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Sharples, WV 6 June 1923

Other

95th BG Combat Tour

Horham Airfield, UK 8 July 1944 - 18 October 1944

Died

Cleveland, OH 4 December 1955

Buried

Sharples, WV 7 December 1955 Mullins/Operman Cemetery

Revisions

Date
Contributor466thHistorian
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Sources

Corrected place of death

Date
Contributor466thHistorian
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https://95thbg.mmsw.eu/person/6522
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2238/images/44046_05_0…
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2375/images/40050_1220…
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101614713

Date
ContributorAAM
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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