Frederick Olson BRIGGS

Married : Adeline HEDRICH

Parents : Murry S & Velva Olson Briggs

Siblings : Patricia P.

B-26 Marauder - type B-25-MA - s/n 41-31805 AN*D

Macr : 7016 

Mission : Bombing of a bridge near Ecouché (61)

Lift off Station 164 Great Dunmow, Essex

It was hit by a Focke Wulf 190 probably the yellow 4 A7 731776 piloted by Herbert Herbert Addicks of the 9 / JG54 disappeared at the same time at Lessard and Lechene

CEMTERY TEMPORARY of La Cambe N°3539

Story of Cemetery Temporary 

Map of Normandy American Cemetery

A native of Caribou, Maine, Frederick graduated from Caribou High School in 1936 and then studied at Ricker Classical Institute Aroostook Normal School. He returned to the University of Maine and graduated from the Bachelor of Science in Education in 1941.

He became a teacher.
He married Adeline P. Hedrich on January 1, 1942.
He joined the Air Force on May 15, 1942; he received his pilot classification at the AAF Southseat Training Center on Air Base in Nashville, Tennessee in October 1942. He then went to Maxwell Air Field (Alabama) in April 1943 for his pre-flight training.
In June 1943 Union City (Tennessee), he was in primary training on AT-17.
In August 1943, Frederick was in basic training at Malden Air Field, Missouri.
In October 1943 it was training at the advanced flight school in Blytheville (Arkansas), he was appointed Second Lieutenant and received his pilot wings.
April 1944: Laughlin Army Air Field in Del Rio (Texas), Frederick joins this base for training as a pilot on a B-26 Marauder bomber.
At the end of April, he left the United States for England and joined the 553^rd Bomber Squadron of the 386^th Bomb Group stationed at AAF 164 station in Great Dunmow (Essex) which operates on B-26.

The Group in April and May makes trips to marshalling yards, fortifications ... at the end of May as D-Day approaches, the Seine's bridges are the Group's targets in order to isolate Normandy.
Frederick was promoted to First Lieutenant in June 1944.
On June 6, The Group was hired to prepare for the landing on Utah Beach, from 6:10 am to 6:25 am more than 200 B-26 bombers will drop 4,400 tonnes of bombs over 4 kilometers of coastline from Beauguillot to the Dunes of Varreville.

The results are devastating. The landing troops are scheduled at 6:30 am.
The following days, the unit will endeavor to isolate the German troops in front of the advance of the front on the Norman ground by attacking all kinds of transport links around the battle zone.
It will also be Caen, Saint-Lô during the major offensives.
On July 28, Fredericks and his crew returned from a bombing mission on a bridge near Ecouché (Orne) when the bomber collided with a fighter of the Luftwaffe FW-190, the bomber fell near Lessard-et- le-Chêne (Calvados), there is no survivor.

Crew of B-26 Marauder - type B-25-MA - s/n 41-31805 AN*D