James Alvin Deshotel
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
All information correct as on Roll of Honor board
Object Number - UPL 13253 - 93rd Bomb Group Roll of Honor at Hardwick Airfield Memorial Museum.
Shot down 18-Mar-43 in B-24 41-23666 'Hot Freight'. Flying in the diamond position of the lead element on a mission to Vegesack, Germany shipbuilding works, the plane took frontal attacks from ME-110 as well as flak attacks. Plane went down west of Seefield. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 15595
Group burial May 1952 of crew.
Awards: PH.
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16046221 / O-724438
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: - Hot Freight
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Chicot, Evangeline Parrish, LA | 18 May 1920 | Son of Sidney A and Dora [Tubre] Deshotel. |
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Enlisted |
Camp Shelby, MS | 30 September 1941 | Camp Shelby, Mississippi |
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Died |
18 March 1943 | ||
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Buried |
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Lemay, St. Louis County, MO | Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri |
Revisions
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor,MACR 15595, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey, p. 91, Ted's Travelling Circus by Cal Stewart pp. 84-85
