Dan Moody Sanderford
Military ROLL OF HONOURAssigned to 791BS, 467BG, 8AF USAAF. B-24 42-52424 'Jack The Ripper II' crashed at Manston after mission to Lille, France. Group mission No. 89. Killed in Action (KIA).
Awards: 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: 467th Bomb Group
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Jack the Ripper II
- Unit: 467th Bomb Group 791st Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Cambridge American Military Cemetery
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Gatesville, TX | 24 July 1924 | Son of George Rufus and Mamie [Laverne] Sanderford. |
Enlisted |
Dallas, TX | 15 November 1942 | Dallas, Texas |
Died |
Manston, UK | 3 August 1944 | Crashed at Manston after mission to Lille, France. Group mission No. 89. Killed in Action (KIA). |
Buried |
4 August 1944 | Interred Cambridge American Cemetery Coton, Cambs, UK Plot F Row 6 Grave 79 | |
Based |
Rackheath | 3 August 1944 | Assigned to 791BS, 467BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
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Sources
Combat Chronology Supplement & Watts book p 136 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia