Edward L Keller
Military
All information correct as on Roll of Honor board
Object Number - UPL 13253 - 93rd Bomb Group Roll of Honor at Hardwick Airfield Memorial Museum.
Shot down by fighters on 27 Aug 1943 in B-24D 42-40767 'Bad Penney' crashed at sea 65 miles off Portreath on the return from a detachment to the 9th AF in North Africa in support of the first Ploesti Raid. Killed in Action (KIA).
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: The Bad Penny
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Brittany Cemetary
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Died |
65 miles short of Portreath | 27 August 1943 | Shot down by fighters on 27 Aug 1943 in B-24D 42-40767 'Bad Penney' crashed at sea 65 miles off Portreath on the return from a detachment to the 9th AF in North Africa in support of the first Ploesti Raid. Killed in Action (KIA). |
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Born |
Louisiana | ||
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Buried |
Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial Saint-James Departement de la Manche Basse-Normandie, France |
Revisions
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Sources
ABMC, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces, MACR 12266, 44th Bomb Group Roll of Honor and Casualties by Will Lundy p.121-22, / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
