Bombardier-Navigator on B-29 Superfortress #42-65210, nicknamed "Fay."
Hit by flak on mission to strike the Mitsubishi aircraft engine works, and caught fire and exploded before the crew could ditch. The aircraft crashed at Nakashinden Yatomi-shi, Nagoya, Japan.
Missing Air Crew Report № 13447.
All eleven crewmembers were Killed In Action:
1LT Floyd O Tobey Jr, O-025563, CA, Pilot
1LT Clarence J Flood Jr, O-761719, MT, Co-Pilot
1LT Murrel H Scott, O-700075, TX, Bombardier-Navigator
FLT O Frank G Albritton, T-127685, TX, Bombardier-Navigator
2LT John H Day, O-868636, OH, Flight Engineer
SSGT Charles O Murrell, 39549640, CA, Radio Operator
TSGT John H. Musser Jr, 16047147, WI, Radar Operator
SSGT Samuel H Forsey, 39287687, CA, Left Gunner
SSGT Elwood R Kinzer, 35057986, OH, CFC Gunner
SSGT Leslie E Reilly, 39558091, CA, Tail Gunner
SGT Henry C Shelton, 36593028, KY, Right Gunner
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Enlisted at Houston, Texas, June 11, 1943.
Hit by flak on mission to strike the Mitsubishi aircraft engine works, and caught fire and exploded before the crew could ditch. The aircraft crashed at Nakashinden Yatomi-shi, Nagoya, Japan.
Missing Air Crew Report № 13447.
All eleven crewmembers were Killed In Action:
1LT Floyd O Tobey Jr, O-025563, CA, Pilot
1LT Clarence J Flood Jr, O-761719, MT, Co-Pilot
1LT Murrel H Scott, O-700075, TX, Bombardier-Navigator
FLT O Frank G Albritton, T-127685, TX, Bombardier-Navigator
2LT John H Day, O-868636, OH, Flight Engineer
SSGT Charles O Murrell, 39549640, CA, Radio Operator
TSGT John H. Musser Jr, 16047147, WI, Radar Operator
SSGT Samuel H Forsey, 39287687, CA, Left Gunner
SSGT Elwood R Kinzer, 35057986, OH, CFC Gunner
SSGT Leslie E Reilly, 39558091, CA, Tail Gunner
SGT Henry C Shelton, 36593028, KY, Right Gunner
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Enlisted at Houston, Texas, June 11, 1943.
Bombardier-Navigator on B-29 Superfortress #42-65210, nicknamed "Fay."
Hit by flak on mission to strike the Mitsubishi aircraft engine works, and caught fire and exploded before the crew could ditch. The aircraft crashed at Nakashinden Yatomi-shi, Nagoya, Japan.
Missing Air Crew Report № 13447.
All eleven crewmembers were Killed In Action:
1LT Floyd O Tobey Jr, O-025563, CA, Pilot
1LT Clarence J Flood Jr, O-761719, MT, Co-Pilot
1LT Murrel H Scott, O-700075, TX, Bombardier-Navigator
FLT O Frank G Albritton, T-127685, TX, Bombardier-Navigator
2LT John H Day, O-868636, OH, Flight Engineer
SSGT Charles O Murrell, 39549640, CA, Radio Operator
TSGT John H. Musser Jr, 16047147, WI, Radar Operator
SSGT Samuel H Forsey, 39287687, CA, Left Gunner
SSGT Elwood R Kinzer, 35057986, OH, CFC Gunner
SSGT Leslie E Reilly, 39558091, CA, Tail Gunner
SGT Henry C Shelton, 36593028, KY, Right Gunner
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Enlisted at Houston, Texas, June 11, 1943.
Hit by flak on mission to strike the Mitsubishi aircraft engine works, and caught fire and exploded before the crew could ditch. The aircraft crashed at Nakashinden Yatomi-shi, Nagoya, Japan.
Missing Air Crew Report № 13447.
All eleven crewmembers were Killed In Action:
1LT Floyd O Tobey Jr, O-025563, CA, Pilot
1LT Clarence J Flood Jr, O-761719, MT, Co-Pilot
1LT Murrel H Scott, O-700075, TX, Bombardier-Navigator
FLT O Frank G Albritton, T-127685, TX, Bombardier-Navigator
2LT John H Day, O-868636, OH, Flight Engineer
SSGT Charles O Murrell, 39549640, CA, Radio Operator
TSGT John H. Musser Jr, 16047147, WI, Radar Operator
SSGT Samuel H Forsey, 39287687, CA, Left Gunner
SSGT Elwood R Kinzer, 35057986, OH, CFC Gunner
SSGT Leslie E Reilly, 39558091, CA, Tail Gunner
SGT Henry C Shelton, 36593028, KY, Right Gunner
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Enlisted at Houston, Texas, June 11, 1943.
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FLT O, 874 AAF BOMB SQ, 498 BOMB GP WORLD WAR II
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Burial September 2, 1949
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