Harry C Hogan
MilitaryJoined Sqd 3-Aug-42. ETO/Flight Echelon 2-Oct-42. On 15-Feb-43 in B-24D 41-23800 "The Captain and the Kids' while serving as Radio Operator the aircraft was damaged by flak and enemy fighter attacks but managed to make it back to England where the pilot made a wheels-up landing at Sandwich Flats, Kent. He was not injured.
On 17-May-43 on a mission to Bordeaux, France Missing in Action he was pulled from a B-24 plane by chute. (Aircraft not identified).
AM/ Oak Leaf Cluster
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: The Captain and the Kids
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 68th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 17 May 1943
- Date: 15 February 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Pathway
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Other Returned to Duty (RTD) |
Sandwich, Kent, UK | 15 February 1943 | Aircraft B-24D 41-23800 was damaged by flak and enemy aircraft on return from a mission to Dunkirk, France. Aircraft made a wheels-up landing at Sandwich Flats, Kent. He was not injured and Returned to Duty (RTD) |
Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
English Channel | 17 May 1943 | Killed when he was pulled from the aircraft in mid-air over the English Channel by his parachute on a mission to Bordeaux, France |
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 17-Feb-2014. Added Commemorated event per American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC); all other chnaged per "The Losses of the 8th 7 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Webb Todd, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop & Hey p. 499, ABMC