Walter Francis BROOKINGS

 

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NUMBER OF SERVICEO-751251
AGE24 yo
DATE OF BIRTH09 january 1920 
ENLISTMENT STATEMASSACHUSETTS
FAMILY

Parents : Joseph G. & Lucy Phyllis (Kelley) BROOKINGS 

Siblings : Joseph Warren, Marie Joan, Lucy & Raymond E

RANKSecond Lieutenant
FONCTIONCoPilote
JOB BEFORE ENLISTEMENT NE
DATE of ENLISTEMENT 
 SQUADRON545th Bomber Squadron
 GROUP384th Bomber Group, Heavy
ARMY8th US Air Force
DATE OF DEATH19 march 1944

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STATUSKIA
PLACE OF DEATH Cne de Wavrans-sur-Ternoise - 5 km de St-Pol-sur-Ternoise
DATA PLAN

B-17 Fortress - type G-30-BO - s/n 42-31926 JD*G

"Lovell's Hovel"

blosville

Takeoff station 106 Grafton Underwood, Northamptonshire

Shot down by the flak

Airplane partially evacuated at 6:05 p.m. just before the explosion in flight

CEMETERY TEMPORARY

 

CEMTERY TEMPORARY of  -- N°--

blosville

Story of Cemetery Temporary 

PlotRowGrave
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CEMETERYNORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY of Colleville

Map of Normandy American Cemetery

GRAVE
PlotRowGrave
D1233
DECORATION

Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Purple Heart

World War II Victory Medal

 

am

Photo FDLM

victory medal

 

 

usaf  8air force  384bg 544bs
STORY

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 Crew of B-17 Fortress - type G-30-BO - s/n 42-31926 JD*G  "Lovell's Hovel"

 

1st Lieutenant James MacNaughton LOVELL Pilote Dead Cim Brit St-Pol-sur-Ternoise O-802209 - Son of  Endicott R Lovell - MICHIGAN
2nd Lieutenant Walter Francis BROOKINGS CoPilote Dead Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer O-751251 - Brookline,Norfolk,MASSACHUSETTS
2nd Lieutenant Joseph Franklin LEWIS Navigateur Prisoner - Camp inconnu  O-687870 - Cumberland, MARYLAND
2nd Lieutenant Martin Paul BACHICHA Bombardier Prisoner - Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria 48-12  O-667228 - El Paso, TEXAS
S/Sergeant Minot Fred DEFTOS Radio/Mitrailleur Dead Jefferson Barrack Nat Cem.- St-Louis, Missouri 11114343 - Brockton, MASSACHUSETTS
T/Sergeant Calvin Oscar Lewis FOWLKES Mecanicien/Mitrailleur Dead Jefferson Barrack Nat Cem. 84.387-391 - St-Louis, Missouri 33336254 - Norfolk, VIRGINIA
S/Sergeant James Hansel Jr JOHNSON Mitrailleur Dead Cim Brit St-Pol-sur-Ternoise 18186534 - Houston, TEXAS
S/Sergeant Louis Julius KARDOS Mitrailleur Prisoner - Wounded, hospitalized and then Stalag 17B Braunau Gneikendorf 32392088 - Kearney, NEW JERSEY
S/Sergeant Doye Herman BLANKENSHIP Mitrailleur Dead Crafts Methodist Church Cem. - Gladhill, Virginia 33213036 - 26 yo - Redwood, VIRGINIA
S/Sergeant Jesse Zera OLDHAM Mitrailleur Prisoner - Wounded, hospitalized and then Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow  14130229 - Carrollton, MISSISSIPPI

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