Hal Errett Bilyeu

Military
media-54457.jpeg UPL 54457 Hal E. Bilyeu

USAF Photo

Object Number - UPL 54457 - Hal E. Bilyeu

Assigned to 329BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. TDY to 9th AF for Ploesti raid. Flew Ploesti raid on 1-Aug-43.



2-Dec-42 while transporting navigators to a school in Oxfordshire, main landing gear retracted upon landing. All crewmembers survived on B-24 41-23674.



Awards: DFC (OLC), AM (3OLC), PH, WWII Victory, EAME (2 x Battle Stars), Air Force Commendation Medal.



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Units served with

The insignia of the 93rd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron 856th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Ball of Fire Junior
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron
A B-24 Liberator of the 466th Bomb Group used as a flight assembly ship. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'B-24 Leaders ship.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Ready & Willing, Silver Streak
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Findlay, IL 20 February 1919 Son of Walter Cleveland and Whitfield Lile Bilyeu.

Died

Shreveport, LA 26 May 2011

Buried

Forest Park East Cemetery Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA Forest Park East Cemetery Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Based

Hardwick Assigned to 329BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF.

Enlisted

Chanute Filed Illinois Enlistment Date 9 Oct 1941

Revisions

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Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia ;
- Unit history;
- Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey p. 51

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Sources

'Ploesti' by Dugan & Stewart, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey pp. 51, 105 , / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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