Wade Lawrence Pitt

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-15612.jpeg UPL 15612 A hand-lettered remembrance, inside the Parish Church of South Cove. It is incorrect, in that there are now only two crewmembers buried at Cambridge. The remainder have been repatriated.

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Photo taken 15 September 2012, Gary Atkins

Object Number - UPL 15612 - A hand-lettered remembrance, inside the Parish Church of South Cove. It is incorrect, in that there are now only two crewmembers buried at...

Wade died in a crash during take off in a B-24 on his third mission in March 1945.



Killed when B24J 42-51241 was apparently caught in propwash, and was thrown over on its back on the way back from mission 920. The crew did not have time to escape the aircraft before it started to break up, and it crashed close to St Lawrence, with all crew lost.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 93rd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Events

Event Location Date Description

Buried

22 April 1949 Plot: Sec: 15, Site: 75 Buried with 4 other crewmembers: Edward Johnson Oliver Jones Ray Stone Marvin Tucker

Died

South Cove, Beccles, Suffolk NR34, UK He was Killed in a crash during take off on his third mission in the 4th week of March 1945

Revisions

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Sources

Find A Grave Memorial# 49299021
Ancestry.com
http://www.usaafdata.com/
photos and description of the crash: http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/ukcr3.htm

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ContributorEmily
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Sources

Reginald B Holder, via American Air Museum Memory Book Correspondence.

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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 / roster

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