DNB= DIED NON-BATTLE RELATED
Cummings was the tail gunner on a B-17E bomber assigned to the 10th Air Force, 7th Bombardment Group, 9th Bombardment Squadron. On June 4, 1942 Cummings's and another plane flew a daylight mission to bomb shipping in the Irrawaddy River in Burma. One crewman was killed and the plane suffered heavy damage from a squadron of enemy fighters. The crew was forced to bail out at a low altitude before the pilot and co-pilot finally crash landed the aircraft. Cummings and five of his crewmates were captured by the Japanese and held as prisoners of war in Rangoon prison. On November 29, 1943 he was killed in an allied bombing raid.
Cummings was from Ouachita Parish LA and was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
He is also memorialized on the tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines.
Cummings was the tail gunner on a B-17E bomber assigned to the 10th Air Force, 7th Bombardment Group, 9th Bombardment Squadron. On June 4, 1942 Cummings's and another plane flew a daylight mission to bomb shipping in the Irrawaddy River in Burma. One crewman was killed and the plane suffered heavy damage from a squadron of enemy fighters. The crew was forced to bail out at a low altitude before the pilot and co-pilot finally crash landed the aircraft. Cummings and five of his crewmates were captured by the Japanese and held as prisoners of war in Rangoon prison. On November 29, 1943 he was killed in an allied bombing raid.
Cummings was from Ouachita Parish LA and was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
He is also memorialized on the tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines.
DNB= DIED NON-BATTLE RELATED
Cummings was the tail gunner on a B-17E bomber assigned to the 10th Air Force, 7th Bombardment Group, 9th Bombardment Squadron. On June 4, 1942 Cummings's and another plane flew a daylight mission to bomb shipping in the Irrawaddy River in Burma. One crewman was killed and the plane suffered heavy damage from a squadron of enemy fighters. The crew was forced to bail out at a low altitude before the pilot and co-pilot finally crash landed the aircraft. Cummings and five of his crewmates were captured by the Japanese and held as prisoners of war in Rangoon prison. On November 29, 1943 he was killed in an allied bombing raid.
Cummings was from Ouachita Parish LA and was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
He is also memorialized on the tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines.
Cummings was the tail gunner on a B-17E bomber assigned to the 10th Air Force, 7th Bombardment Group, 9th Bombardment Squadron. On June 4, 1942 Cummings's and another plane flew a daylight mission to bomb shipping in the Irrawaddy River in Burma. One crewman was killed and the plane suffered heavy damage from a squadron of enemy fighters. The crew was forced to bail out at a low altitude before the pilot and co-pilot finally crash landed the aircraft. Cummings and five of his crewmates were captured by the Japanese and held as prisoners of war in Rangoon prison. On November 29, 1943 he was killed in an allied bombing raid.
Cummings was from Ouachita Parish LA and was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
He is also memorialized on the tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines.
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