SGT Blythe Robert Smyth (1912-1945) - Find a Grave Memorial

SGT Blythe Robert Smyth

Birth

16 Dec 1912

Russell County, Virginia, USA

Death

3 Jan 1945 (aged 32)

Cheddington, Aylesbury Vale District, Buckinghamshire, England

Burial

Kendrick Cemetery

Rosedale, Russell County, Virginia, USA Add to Map

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Flight Engineer, 8th Air Force, aboard B-24H Liberator #42-52650, nicknamed "Cancer."

One of ten Army airmen killed when his airplane crashed after takeoff from RAF Cheddington, for a nighttime leaflet dropping mission, January 3, 1945.

His aircraft was painted a unique gloss black.

The airmen killed were:

2nd Lt. Ray L Hendrix, Pilot
2nd Lt. Jerome Pfullmann, Co-Pilot
2nd Lt. Charles L Miller, Bombardier
2nd Lt. Vincent R Murphy, Navigator
Sgt. George W Hawkes
Sgt. William K Lawson
Sgt. Samuel Schaeffer
Sgt. Blythe R. Smyth
Sgt. Franz Josef R Weik
Sgt. John T Wheatley

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SGT, 406 AAF BOMB SQ, 92 BOMB GP WORLD WAR II

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Mary Douglas Howard Smythe

W. F. Smythe

Louise Douglas Smythe Settle

Gertrude Anne Smythe

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Mary Douglas Howard Smythe

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Gertrude Anne Smythe

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