William Folk Evans
MilitaryPyote Air Base, Texas - September 1943
Front Row (L-R)
1 John Daly, Pilot
2 Robert Koerber, Copilot
3 William Evans, Navigator
4 Joseph Jennings, Bombardier
Back Row (L-R) - Gunners
1 Omer "Lyle" Young
2 Frank Hearne
3 John MacCallum
4 Adriel "Wayne" Langendoerfer
5 Howard Polizzo
6 Harvey Tuber
This ten-man crew earned the Air Medal on their second mission -- Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, where they bombed a Messerschmidt airplane factory.
edited to correct proper spelling of Pyote and generated link to it in "places".
Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 17 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Sorau, Germany mission 11-Apr-44 'Tenny Belle' exploded in mid-air near Downham Market, England. Sole survivor, blown out of A/C with chute. Wounded in Action (WIA) RTD. No MACR
Awards: AM (OLC), PH, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11100403
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier/Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31313795
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner / Armorer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: Nose Gunner / Togglier / Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36329211
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Sara Jane
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: The Lost Angel
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 482nd Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Just So, Patches
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 10 April 1944
- Date: 9 April 1944
- Date: 28 March 1944
- Date: 27 March 1944
- Date: 23 March 1944
Places
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Kinards, SC | 13 June 1921 | Son of S B Evans. |
Based |
Pyote Army Airfield | 23 September 1943 - 8 December 1943 | B-17 Flying Fortress crew training |
Based |
Kimbolton | 20 February 1944 | Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Died |
Columbus, GA | 2 December 2005 | |
Buried |
Woodlawn Memorial Park Greenville, Greenville County, SC | 5 December 2005 | Woodlawn Memorial Park Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina |
Based |
Snettisham | 19 February 1944 | Intensive gunnery training |
Revisions
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379th Bombardment Group Anthology, Volume 2: November 1942-July 1945
Bibliography: [Betz, Frank L. and Kenneth H. Cassens editors]. 379th Bombardment Group (H) Anthology, Volume One: November 1942-July 1945. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, 2000, p. 302
379th Bombardment Group (H) Anthology, 1942-45; p.160 and 302 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia