Second Lieutenant Medlin served with the 330th Combat Crew Training Squadron from Biggs Field, near El Paso, Texas.
He was the Navigator and one of nine airmen killed when RB-24E Liberator #42-64398 crashed, five miles southeast of the airfield. The pilot was making his third attempt at making an emergency landing after an engine failure, when the bomber mushed into the ground and exploded, killing all aboard.
The crewmembers killed were:
2nd Lt. Charles M Cooper, III, Pilot
2nd Lt. Nicholas DePascale, Co-Pilot
2nd Lt. Rudolph N Medlin, Navigator
Sgt. Thomas F McCarthy, Gunner
Sgt. Frank A Pfister, Jr, Flight Engineer
Cpl. Walter T Kirby, Radio Operator
Cpl. Donald V Robison, Gunner
PFC Joseph R Kelley, Gunner
PFC William J Sheridan, Gunner
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Enlisted October 22, 1942 at Raleigh, North Carolina.
He was the Navigator and one of nine airmen killed when RB-24E Liberator #42-64398 crashed, five miles southeast of the airfield. The pilot was making his third attempt at making an emergency landing after an engine failure, when the bomber mushed into the ground and exploded, killing all aboard.
The crewmembers killed were:
2nd Lt. Charles M Cooper, III, Pilot
2nd Lt. Nicholas DePascale, Co-Pilot
2nd Lt. Rudolph N Medlin, Navigator
Sgt. Thomas F McCarthy, Gunner
Sgt. Frank A Pfister, Jr, Flight Engineer
Cpl. Walter T Kirby, Radio Operator
Cpl. Donald V Robison, Gunner
PFC Joseph R Kelley, Gunner
PFC William J Sheridan, Gunner
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Enlisted October 22, 1942 at Raleigh, North Carolina.
Second Lieutenant Medlin served with the 330th Combat Crew Training Squadron from Biggs Field, near El Paso, Texas.
He was the Navigator and one of nine airmen killed when RB-24E Liberator #42-64398 crashed, five miles southeast of the airfield. The pilot was making his third attempt at making an emergency landing after an engine failure, when the bomber mushed into the ground and exploded, killing all aboard.
The crewmembers killed were:
2nd Lt. Charles M Cooper, III, Pilot
2nd Lt. Nicholas DePascale, Co-Pilot
2nd Lt. Rudolph N Medlin, Navigator
Sgt. Thomas F McCarthy, Gunner
Sgt. Frank A Pfister, Jr, Flight Engineer
Cpl. Walter T Kirby, Radio Operator
Cpl. Donald V Robison, Gunner
PFC Joseph R Kelley, Gunner
PFC William J Sheridan, Gunner
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Enlisted October 22, 1942 at Raleigh, North Carolina.
He was the Navigator and one of nine airmen killed when RB-24E Liberator #42-64398 crashed, five miles southeast of the airfield. The pilot was making his third attempt at making an emergency landing after an engine failure, when the bomber mushed into the ground and exploded, killing all aboard.
The crewmembers killed were:
2nd Lt. Charles M Cooper, III, Pilot
2nd Lt. Nicholas DePascale, Co-Pilot
2nd Lt. Rudolph N Medlin, Navigator
Sgt. Thomas F McCarthy, Gunner
Sgt. Frank A Pfister, Jr, Flight Engineer
Cpl. Walter T Kirby, Radio Operator
Cpl. Donald V Robison, Gunner
PFC Joseph R Kelley, Gunner
PFC William J Sheridan, Gunner
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Enlisted October 22, 1942 at Raleigh, North Carolina.
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