Navigator aboard B-24D Liberator #42-40146.
During a navigational training flight out of Clovis Army Airfield, New Mexico, crashed into the Sangre de Cristo mountains while flying in instrument conditions, approximately 45 miles west of Trinidad, Colorado. The instrument panel may have failed.
All eight airmen aboard were killed:
1LT George W Wiggins, O-665364, TX, Pilot
2LT William R Bowerman, O-735033, CA, Co-Pilot
2LT John T Crowley, O-795209, IA, Navigator
2LT Hoyt A Phelps, O-732969, MI, Bombardier
SSGT Walter S Ciesielski, 35258541, IN, Flight Engineer
SSGT Franklin O Bynum, 18076669, TX, Assistant Engineer
Sgt Walter G Dymond, 14064530, NJ, Radio Operator
SGT Edward P Foley, 12145579, CT, Asst. Radio Operator
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Enlisted at Fort Des Moines, IA, February 20, 1942.
During a navigational training flight out of Clovis Army Airfield, New Mexico, crashed into the Sangre de Cristo mountains while flying in instrument conditions, approximately 45 miles west of Trinidad, Colorado. The instrument panel may have failed.
All eight airmen aboard were killed:
1LT George W Wiggins, O-665364, TX, Pilot
2LT William R Bowerman, O-735033, CA, Co-Pilot
2LT John T Crowley, O-795209, IA, Navigator
2LT Hoyt A Phelps, O-732969, MI, Bombardier
SSGT Walter S Ciesielski, 35258541, IN, Flight Engineer
SSGT Franklin O Bynum, 18076669, TX, Assistant Engineer
Sgt Walter G Dymond, 14064530, NJ, Radio Operator
SGT Edward P Foley, 12145579, CT, Asst. Radio Operator
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Enlisted at Fort Des Moines, IA, February 20, 1942.
Navigator aboard B-24D Liberator #42-40146.
During a navigational training flight out of Clovis Army Airfield, New Mexico, crashed into the Sangre de Cristo mountains while flying in instrument conditions, approximately 45 miles west of Trinidad, Colorado. The instrument panel may have failed.
All eight airmen aboard were killed:
1LT George W Wiggins, O-665364, TX, Pilot
2LT William R Bowerman, O-735033, CA, Co-Pilot
2LT John T Crowley, O-795209, IA, Navigator
2LT Hoyt A Phelps, O-732969, MI, Bombardier
SSGT Walter S Ciesielski, 35258541, IN, Flight Engineer
SSGT Franklin O Bynum, 18076669, TX, Assistant Engineer
Sgt Walter G Dymond, 14064530, NJ, Radio Operator
SGT Edward P Foley, 12145579, CT, Asst. Radio Operator
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Enlisted at Fort Des Moines, IA, February 20, 1942.
During a navigational training flight out of Clovis Army Airfield, New Mexico, crashed into the Sangre de Cristo mountains while flying in instrument conditions, approximately 45 miles west of Trinidad, Colorado. The instrument panel may have failed.
All eight airmen aboard were killed:
1LT George W Wiggins, O-665364, TX, Pilot
2LT William R Bowerman, O-735033, CA, Co-Pilot
2LT John T Crowley, O-795209, IA, Navigator
2LT Hoyt A Phelps, O-732969, MI, Bombardier
SSGT Walter S Ciesielski, 35258541, IN, Flight Engineer
SSGT Franklin O Bynum, 18076669, TX, Assistant Engineer
Sgt Walter G Dymond, 14064530, NJ, Radio Operator
SGT Edward P Foley, 12145579, CT, Asst. Radio Operator
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Enlisted at Fort Des Moines, IA, February 20, 1942.
Inscription
2LT, 355 AAF BOMB SQ, 302 BOMB GP WORLD WAR II
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