George R Hill
MilitaryHead of 67th Radio Maintenance Shop.
Hill recalled the two secondments the 44th made to N.Africa in the summer of 1943. On the first, to Benina Main, they were simply dropped off in the desert at night 'dark as the inside of your hat' and no sign of life anywhere. On the second trip, this time to an airfield in Tunis,
they came across a cache of liquor in an abandoned German supply dump.
The CO ordered them to get rid of it within 24 hours 'none of us had any trouble obeying his orders.'.
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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
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Died |
8 November 2003 |
Revisions
Biography completed by historian Helen Millgate. Information sourced from correspondence files and articles related to the service of George Hill.
44th BG newsletter &Page 296 in the book THE SECOND AIR DIVISION by Turner Publishing Company, 1998 edition, D790.A2S45 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia