David Reece Totten

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Object Number - UPL 14147 - David Reece Totten

Plane crashed on take off. Plane was B-24 #4295120 'Hookem Cow'

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'

458th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-95120

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Hookem Cow/Betty/Stinky
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron

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Born

West Virginia, USA 19 February 1921

Died

Hainford, Norwich, Norfolk NR10, UK 14 April 1945 Killed in Hainford, Norfolk, when the B24 "Hookem Cow" crashed shortly after takeoff.

Buried

Beckley, WV USA Sunset Memorial Park Beckley Raleigh County West Virginia, USA Plot: Greenlawn 1-10 Section

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458th BG website & Page 283 of the book LIBERATORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010 & 458bg.com, Totten  crew, crew member list & picture included / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

David Reece Totten: Gallery (5 items)

Object number: UPL 14109 - Hookem Cow, 42-95120, with M/Sgt McGinn, Crew...

Object number: UPL 14140 - Hainford "Hookem Cow" Memorial, Norfolk.

Object number: UPL 14143 - The Totten Crew: Standing: Charles May, Charles...

Object number: UPL 14147 - David Reece Totten

Object number: UPL 16609 - Hookem Cow memorial, dedicated 28 June 2015.