Albert Frank Wick
Military ROLL OF HONOURDate of photo unknown
I am the Historian for the 493rd BG. This photo was located on Ancestry as part of a family tree associated with Albert Frank Wick.
Assigned to 860BS, 493BG, 8AF USAAF. Killed in Action on 19-Sep-44 in B-17 43-38209. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 10212
Awards: AM (2OLC), PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 493rd Bomb Group 860th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12053124 / O-690024
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 493rd Bomb Group 860th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Lorraine American Cemetery, St Avold, France
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania, USA | 23 April 1921 | |
Other Killed in Action |
Germany | 19 September 1944 | |
Buried |
Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial | Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial Saint-Avold, France Plot K Row 33 Grave 20 | |
Based |
Debach | 19 September 1944 | Assigned to 860BS, 493BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
correct detail to B-17 (not B-24) in biography
493rd BG Archives
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Helton s Hellcats, A Pictorial History of the 493rd BG, pub 1998; ABMC, MACR 10212, http://493bgdebach.co.uk/roster_list.php / MACR 10212 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database