Herman G Tillman
MilitaryImage found at Red Dog 1944
Flew B-17 Flying Fortress "Sweet Adeline", flew 62 missions over Europe.
Wingman for Jimmy Doolittle for first daylight raid on Rome.
Injured on mission to bomb German High Command HQ in Frascati, Italy, 8 Sept 1943, awarded DFC and purple heart on return to Tunisia.
Returned to Baltimore in 1944 and sent to Texas as flight instructor.
31 years in USAF, flew jet aircraft in Korean war and F-4 Phantoms over Vietnam.
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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-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Bonnie Sue aka Sweet Adaline
- Unit: 301st Bomb Group 419th Bomb Squadron
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Enlisted |
Maxwell Field, Alabama |
Revisions
Alfred N Swanson, via American Air Museum Memory Book Correspondence.
Obituary in 'Baltimore Sun', 23 February 2012.
Biography at Red Dog 1944
97th Bomb Group Association, Inc., Roster - June 1, 2000 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia