Reynold Thomas Fraker
Military ROLL OF HONOURUS Official photograph, shared across from 401st Bomb Group Association website:
http://401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=3037
Assigned to 615BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Leipzig in B-17 'Belle of the Barbary Coast' 42-37981 Lost due to mech failure and shot down by Fw190 crashed near Burkhorst 7-Jul-44. Hit by 20mm shell in first pass by fighters. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 7222.
Awards: PH.
Connections
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14076431 / O-812294
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Belle of the Barbary Coast
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Benefield
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Lorraine American Cemetery, St Avold, France
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Dalton, Georgia | 7 September 1923 | Son of Thomas Franklin and Ella Mae [Lentz] Fraker. |
Enlisted |
Fort McPherson, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA | 12 March 1943 | Fort McPherson Atlanta, GA. |
Died |
Dannefeld, 39649 Gardelegen, Germany | 7 July 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) Leipzig in B-17 'Belle of the Barbary Coast' 42-37981 Lost due to mech failure and shot down by Fw190 crashed near Burkhorst 7-Jul-44. Hit by 20mm shell in first pass by fighters. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 7222. |
Buried |
Interred Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial |
Revisions
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We Were Eagles Volume Three: The Eighth Air Force at War June to October 1944 By Martin W. Bowman
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We Were Eagles Volume Three: The Eighth Air Force at War June to October 1944 By Martin W. Bowman
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56655138/reynold-thomas-fraker
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7222/Tom Farmer, http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=3037