Deckerd J Gray Jr
MilitaryKilled in Action (KIA) 8-Aug-43 in B-24D 42-40555, 479th ASG/4th ASS while serving as Radio Operator. Aircraft was shot down be eney aircraft NW of Cabo Ortegal, Spain while on an anti-submarine patrol of the Bay of Biscay. Member of an antisubmarine squadron that was in the 8th 3 months and then transferred to the Navy.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group
Missions
- Date: 8 August 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
8 August 1943 | Killed when aircraft was shot down by enemy aircraft and crashed into the sea NW of Cabo Ortegal, Spain. His remains have never been recovered. | |
Other Commemorated |
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Madingley Road, Coton, Cambridgeshire CB23 7PH, UK | Commemorated on the Wall of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery. |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 14-May-2015 Added decorations, made connection to Unit , Place and Mission within existing website data; Added SN and KIA event per National Archive Records Administration (NARA) MACR 257; edited Summary biography with date, aircraft model, group, squadron; crew position per "Losses of the 8 th & 9th Air Forces", Stan Bishop & John A. Hey, MBE; added Commemoration event per American Battle Monument Commission (AMBC) records.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop & Hey p. 225