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FLT O James Grady Jackson

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FLT O James Grady Jackson Veteran

Birth
Death
4 Jun 1943 (aged 20)
Saint David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Burial
Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
Plot
SECTION Q SITE 36-A
Memorial ID
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Flight Officer, 476th Bomb Squadron, 335th Bomb Group, U.S. Army Air Forces, World War II.

Co-Pilot of B-26C Marauder #41-34765.

While on a final leg of a ferrying flight from the Unite States to the United Kingdom via South America and Africa, the flight was off course and struck a crag (Carn Llidi) in cloudy weather in Pembrokeshire, Wales, near Saint David's. All four airmen aboard were killed:

1st Lt. Robert E Lawrence, O-430604, NY, Pilot
Flt. Off. James G. Jackson, T-120300, GA, Co-Pilot
2nd Lt. Hulbert H Robertson, O-665939, TX, Navigator
S/Sgt. William A Brown, 19055637, MT, Flight Engineer
Contributor: Tim Cook
Flight Officer, 476th Bomb Squadron, 335th Bomb Group, U.S. Army Air Forces, World War II.

Co-Pilot of B-26C Marauder #41-34765.

While on a final leg of a ferrying flight from the Unite States to the United Kingdom via South America and Africa, the flight was off course and struck a crag (Carn Llidi) in cloudy weather in Pembrokeshire, Wales, near Saint David's. All four airmen aboard were killed:

1st Lt. Robert E Lawrence, O-430604, NY, Pilot
Flt. Off. James G. Jackson, T-120300, GA, Co-Pilot
2nd Lt. Hulbert H Robertson, O-665939, TX, Navigator
S/Sgt. William A Brown, 19055637, MT, Flight Engineer
Contributor: Tim Cook

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GEORGIA
FLT O
476 AAF BOMB SQ
WORLD WAR II



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