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TSGT Roland Blair Digman
Cenotaph

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TSGT Roland Blair Digman Veteran

Birth
Death
30 Dec 1942 (aged 23)
Cenotaph
Pruntytown, Taylor County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
Plot
SECTION MA SITE 37
Memorial ID
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Memorial marker and is also on Tablets of the Missing at Brittany American Cemetery.
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B-17F 42-4078 was delivered Tulsa 15-Sep-42; Presque Is 19-Oct-42; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-C] Chelveston Nov-42. Shot down 30-Dec-42 by enemy aircraft on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at Lorient, France. Crashed into the Bay of Biscay, France. Missing in Action. 10 KIA No MACR issued.

Pilot 1Lt Floyd E. Love (KIA)
CoPilot 2Lt Kent H. Wolfsen (KIA)
Navigator Frank J. Watchtel (KIA)
Bombardier 2Lt Lawrence Goreski (KIA)
E TSgt Raymond N. Kirkendoll (KIA)
RO TSgt Roland B. Digman (KIA)
BTG SSgt Raymond E Bandy (KIA)
Waist Gunner Sgt Robert E. Joyce (KIA)
Waist Gunner Larry C. DeBruin (KIA)
TG SSgt Peter G. Galarza (KIA)
Memorial marker and is also on Tablets of the Missing at Brittany American Cemetery.
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B-17F 42-4078 was delivered Tulsa 15-Sep-42; Presque Is 19-Oct-42; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-C] Chelveston Nov-42. Shot down 30-Dec-42 by enemy aircraft on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at Lorient, France. Crashed into the Bay of Biscay, France. Missing in Action. 10 KIA No MACR issued.

Pilot 1Lt Floyd E. Love (KIA)
CoPilot 2Lt Kent H. Wolfsen (KIA)
Navigator Frank J. Watchtel (KIA)
Bombardier 2Lt Lawrence Goreski (KIA)
E TSgt Raymond N. Kirkendoll (KIA)
RO TSgt Roland B. Digman (KIA)
BTG SSgt Raymond E Bandy (KIA)
Waist Gunner Sgt Robert E. Joyce (KIA)
Waist Gunner Larry C. DeBruin (KIA)
TG SSgt Peter G. Galarza (KIA)

Inscription

TSGT, 366 AAF BOMB SQ, 305 BOMB GP WORLD WAR II


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  • Created by: ShaneO
  • Added: Oct 20, 2010
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60365820/roland_blair-digman: accessed ), memorial page for TSGT Roland Blair Digman (3 May 1919–30 Dec 1942), Find a Grave Memorial ID 60365820, citing West Virginia National Cemetery, Pruntytown, Taylor County, West Virginia, USA; Maintained by ShaneO (contributor 47009366).