Rolland Roy Ridgway

Military

Crew Number 22

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Missions

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5725) nicknamed "This is IT!" of the 381st Bomb Group opens her bomb bay doors during a mission.

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  • Date: 30 December 1944
B-17s of the 398th Bomb Group bombing the railyard at Bingen, 29 December 1944. Printed caption on reverse: '57548 AC- With bomb bay doors open, the first of a large formation of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses send their bombs plummeting earthwards on rail installations at Bingen, Germany, as heavy bombers of US Eighth Air Force press home their attack of December 29, 1944. US Air Force Photo.'

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  • Date: 29 December 1944

761

  • Date: 25 December 1944

750

  • Date: 15 December 1944

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Fairfield, NE 10 May 1924

Other

390th BG Combat Tour

Framlingham Airfield, UK 16 November 1944 - 11 April 1945

Died

St. Paul, NE 2 February 1998

Buried

Fairfield, NE 6 February 1998 Fairfield Cemetery Fairfield, Clay County, Nebraska, USA Plot Lot 349, Space 5
Fairfield, NE

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http://5085.sydneyplus.com/final/portal.aspx?lang=en-US
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/43822227:60901?indiv=…
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2238/images/44022_04_0…

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.390thspace.com/missions.php?name=Ridgway%2C+Rolland+R