Ira Leonard Ball

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Shot down 24 Dec 1944 in B-17G #43-37569. Killed in Action (KIA).



AM w/ 5 Oak Leaf Cluster

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Units served with

The insignia of the 487th Bomb Group.

487th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

43-37569

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 487th Bomb Group 836th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Fairview, Oklahoma, USA 13 July 1922

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

4920 Aywaille, Belgium 24 December 1944 He was a pilot in the 836th Bomb Squadron, 487th Bomb Group. He was killed in action on 24 Dec 1944 when B-17G 43-37569 was shot down by German fighters near Liege, Belgium. Most of the wreckage of the aircraft fell in the Ambleve river at 'le Gouffre' near Aywaille, Belgium. The tail section fell near the hamlet of Septroux, near Aywaille (MACR 11559).

Buried

Plot A, Row 7, Grave 11

Revisions

Date
ContributorPaulWebber
Changes
Sources

1. Middle name 'Leonard' from 1940 U.S. Census
2. Rank 'First Lieutenant' recorded in MACR 11559. Date of rank: 30 August 1944, from 487th Bomb Group records.
3. Biographic sketch and full sources on findagrave:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55881523

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

ABMC, MACR 11559 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 11559 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database