Philip G Bedwell

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

media-13253.jpeg UPL 13253 93rd Bomb Group Roll of Honor at Hardwick Airfield Memorial Museum.

All information correct as on Roll of Honor board

Object Number - UPL 13253 - 93rd Bomb Group Roll of Honor at Hardwick Airfield Memorial Museum.

Assigned to 328BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. Crew member of B-24 41-23711 'Jerks Natural', flew on Ploesti raid on 1-Aug-43.

'Jerks Natural' was damaged over Austria on mission to Wiener Neustadt Bf 109 factory and crashed in Yugoslavia on 1-Oct-43. KIA. MACR 3301.

Awards: DFC, AM, PH.

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Units served with

328th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

93rd Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

41-23711

Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
Nicknames: Jerks Natural
Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Operation Tidal Wave

Date: 1 August 1943
Official Description:

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Marion, Grant County, IN	15 December 1919	Son of Grant H and Eva L [Keene] Bedwell.
Enlisted	Fort Benjamin Harrison, IN	7 April 1942	Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana
Other Survived Ploesti	Ploiești, Romania	1 August 1943	Flew on Ploesti raid on 1-Aug-43.
Died	Yugoslavia	1 October 1943	'Jerks Natural' was damaged over Austria on mission to Wiener Neustadt Bf 109 factory and crashed in Yugoslavia on 1-Oct-43. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 3301.
Buried	Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay St. Louis County MO	13 March 1950	Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay St. Louis County Missouri, USA.
	Marion, Indiana
Based	Hardwick	1 October 1943	Assigned to 328BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF.
Buried	Grant Memorial Park Marion, Grant County, IN		Memorialised Grant Memorial Park Marion, Grant County, Indiana