John Remillet
Military | Major | Squadron Commander - Command Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
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Military | Major | Squadron Commander - Command Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Major | Squadron Ops Officer - Squadron Commander - Command Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
Commanding officer of 787th BS Killed in training mission in B-24 # 42-51331. Collision of 'Glad to See Ya' with the Archibald Williams crew over England
Group
The 466th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Attlebridge, Norfolk, during the last year of the war in Europe. The Group flew 232 missions in the course of the year and celebrated the 100th one by inviting local people onto the base to mark the...
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Based | Attlebridge |
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Right Waist Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Ball Turret Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
completed 34 missions
Good Conduct/Air Medal with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters/EAME Medal with 4 Bronze Stars
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down 9 May 1944 in B-24 #42-52584 'Worry Bird II', Killed in Action (KIA).
PH
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
B-24H #41-29439. Crashed at Lioncourt, near St. Quentin, FR, on return from gas trucking mission to St. Dizier, FR. Crew of six all KNO. All received a group burial at the Jeff Barracks Cemetery.
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Ball Turret Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Radio Operator | 466th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down 9 May 1944 in B-24 #4252584 'Worry Bird II. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
PH
Military | Sergeant (Technician Fourth Grade) | Right Waist Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) Shot down by flak and crashed into channel in B-24 Gruesome Goose #4128747
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
B-24 Liberator
The B-24H “Gruesome Goose” while on a mission to bomb Mourmelon-Sur-Marne Ammuniton Dump in France ditched over the Channel with the loss of all 10 on board.
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B-24 Liberator
Assigned to 787BS, 466BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Berlin. Forced down, crash landed Apeldourn, Netherlands. 29-Apr-44 10 x POW. MACR 4447.
B-24 Liberator
This aircraft's last mission was on August 15, 1944, when it was flown by a makeshift crew led by pilot Robert W. Harrington from Attlebridge air base. The target was a Luftwaffe airfield in Vechta, near Bremen, Germany. The target was successfully...
B-24 Liberator
Mission 291
350 B-24s are dispatched to aviation industry targets in Brunswick
1944-04-08 - MACR #: 3840
Notes:29365 (466th BG, 787th BS) lost Apr 8, 1944. MACR 3840
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
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10 May 2018 21:31:17 | cariocabev | Changes to nicknames |
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Ralph's son- Capt Gary M Fine USAF |
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13 March 2015 16:51:49 | rossingtonj | Changes to type |
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Type added. |
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09 January 2015 22:17:20 | 466thHistorian | Changes to commanding officers associations |
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466th BG Historian |
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09 January 2015 22:14:51 | 466thHistorian | Changes to commanding officers associations |
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466th BG Historian |
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27 September 2014 18:42:51 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980) |