Homer C Brewer

Military

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Lorelei
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

Fort Thomas, KY, USA 4 January 1941

Died

Interned (INT)

North Sea 11 July 1944 - 11 July 1944 On July 11, 1944 they took off early in the morning to partake in a mission to bomb railroad marshaling yards in Munich, Germany. Flying with the crew on this date was S/Sgt Homer C. Brewer, a gunner in the 755th Squadron. Nothing is currently available to show where Brewer had come from or which crew, if any, he had been assigned to. Their aircraft that day was B-24H 41-29300 named Lorelei, borrowed from the 753rd Squadron. After entering a cloud bank shortly after takeoff, the crew and their B-24 were never seen or heard from again. Records from the 458th offer no information. The entire crew was declared dead (DED) on July 12, 1945. In July of 1949 Eugene Bair's parents received a letter from the Department of the Army officially declaring him killed in action with the explanation that their plane must have gone down in the North Sea (see below). No contact with any other relatives of this crew has been made, but it is assumed that the families of the other crew members received similar letters.

Born

Boyd County, KY, USA

Buried

No Known Grave Tablet of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery
Lewis County, KY, USA

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Sources

MACR 6927 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database