John C Johnson Jr

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Killed In Action (KIA). B-24H 42-50345 shot down by flak, crashed in the English Channel off Zuydcoote, France on May 28, 1944 after all crew baled out. ABMC lists DOD as May 29, 1945. (All eight casualties in this crew have a legal death date of May 29, not May 28, and 1945, not 1944.)

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Units served with

A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.

486th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Eugene R Hicks

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-811078
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-50345

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Aerial photograph of Sudbury airfield looking south west, the bomb dump is to the upper right of the airfield, 29 February 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC188. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).

Sudbury

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Acton

Events

Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

Nashville, TN, USA 18 January 1943

Died

Off Zuydcoote, France 29 May 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Lutzendorf hit by flak in #3 engine near IP not able to keep up with formation abandoned over channel. KIA MACR 5389

Born

California, USA

Buried

Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial
Greenville County, SC, USA

Revisions

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ContributorAl_Skiff
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Mission 376: Battle Over the Reich, May 28, 1944 By Ivo de Jong

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ContributorIWMPM
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ABMC http://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WWI…

Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces. Volume 3. ETO Area - April 1944 - June 1944. Bishop, Stan D & Hey, John A. Bishop Book Productions. 2009. ISBN 978-0-9547685-3-9

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ContributorAAM
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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5389 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / WW II Memorial/ MACR 5389