Myron M Loyet
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Myron M. Loyet was on board 43-38566 on the 21 November 1944 mission. That plane was involved in a mid-air collision with another 550th Squadron aircraft, 43-38270. Loyet and 6 others of the 9-man crew on 43-38566 returned to base, but Bombardier James H. Shaver and Top Turret Gunner Edward F. Myers were made prisoner as they had bailed out. MACR 10468.
Myron's story of surviving the crash of 43-38566 was written in the June 1999 385th BGMA Newsletter. He was inducted into the Army on Feb. 28th, 1942, spent a year as a battalion clerk, and became an Army Air Corps Cadet. He was assigned to Santa Ana Air Base, CA, for preflight, and basic flight training in California. He was reclassed as a navigator but first graduated as an aerial gunner at Las Vegas Air Base NV. Graduated and commissioned a navigator from Ellington Field Houston TX, assigned to a B-17 crew at McDill Field, Tampa, then sent to England as a replacement crew with the 385th Bomb Group, 550th Squadron, Great Ashfield, June 1944. Combat begins July 1944.
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- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31306363
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-764447
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot / Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-708058
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
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Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Germany | 21 November 1944 | |
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Myron Loyet was my grandfather's B-17 navigator. He signed his photo in the nose of the crashed B-17 43-38566 as Myron "Mike" "Frenchy" Loyet.
Merged with duplicate entry to include information drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 10468
MACR 10468 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database