BOWMAN Ward O - 736 BS 454 BGH

 

Ward Oliver BOWMAN

 

BOWMAN_Ward_O

Source : SueMac (Ellen Marchese)
 
NUMBER OF SERVICE35034928
AGE21 yo
DATE OF BIRTH2 February 1923 Chillicothe, Ross County, OHIO
ENLISTMENT STATE OHIO
FAMILY

Parents : William Oliver & Gladys Grace Ward BOWMAN

Siblings : Dorothy Anne, Helen Louise, Mary Maxine, Harold Eugene, James Richard & William Gordon

RANKTechnical Sergeant
FONCTIONGunner
JOB BEFORE ENLISTEMENTActors NE
DATE of ENLISTEMENT11 July 1941 Fort Hayes Columbus OHIO
 SQUADRON736th Bomber Squadron
 GROUP454th Bomber Group, Heavy
ARMY15th US Air Force
DATE OF DEATH27 May 1944

BOWMAN_Ward_O

Source : Andy

STATUSMIA
PLACE OF DEATHFallen at sea - Rade d'Agay
DATA PLAN

B-24 Liberator - type G-10-NT - s/n 42-78213 "Miss I Hope"

b24

Macr : 5413
Mission: Montpellier (34): airfield bombardment
Based in the south of Italy - Excavations carried out by the team of Philippe Castellano
Shot Down by Flak – 09:20
Aircraft partially evacuated

 
CEMETERYRHONE AMERICAN CEMETERY and MEMORIAL of Draguignan

Map of Rhône American Cemetery

GRAVE
PlotRowGrave
Wall of the missing
DECORATION

Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters

Purple Heart

World War II Victory Medal

 Air-Force Gunner Wings


Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters

Photo FDLM

victory medal

 Aerial Gunner Badge

 
usaf 9af 454th_Bombardment_Group 736th_bs
STORY

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Source : SueMac
 		 

BOWMAN_Ward_O

Source : Hudson Louie

Saturdays May 27, 1944, the four bombers groups of the 304th Bomber-Wing 15th Air Force, took off from their bases in the south of Italy, to attack Montpellier/Fréjorgues's airfield.

Among them, the 454th Bomber-Goup, formed of 30 planes. A very little time before the crossing of the French coasts, on the level of the cape Roux, located on the coasts of the Estérel's mount, a B-24 is hit in full by Flak.

4 men will succeed in jumping in parachute, and will be immediately made prisoners. The parachute of a fifth man, the nose turret gunner, will be put unfortunately in torch, while the five last members of crew will be killed, having been for various reasons, in the incapacity to evacuate the plane.

The sea will hide the bomber become now an underwater wreck until the end of august 1984, when during an exploration diving on the Agay's bay, were discovered, by 140 feet depth, its dislocated wrecks.

The team who discovered the wreks (Philippe Bres, Jean-Pierre Joncheray, its son Philippe, Bernard Mariller, Yves Moussou, Claude Pinaut and the author), was very marked by this formless mass which rested on the sandy bottom, and where also lay, an anti-Flak waistcoats, a parachute rolled up around a machine-gun having belonged to the turret of nose, shoes...

Crashed in the sea at Bay of Agay, Saint-Raphael, France.

Bio by: Andy

 

Crew of B-24 Liberator - type G-10-NT - s/n 42-78213

"Miss I Hope"

 

1Lt Robert V BATZ Pilot Dead MIA - Tablets Cim Am Rhône Draguignan O-680155 - AM+2 - Lancaster, California
2Lt George Everest ERLEWINE CoPilot Dead MIA - Tablets Cim Am Rhône Draguignan O-691390 - AM+1 - Kalamasoo, Michigan
2Lt Robert Thomas BRAGG Navigator Dead Crown Hill Cem. Ruthven, Palo Alto Co, Iowa O-747971 - Fils de Alvin Lorenzo et Erma Pearl (Townsend) Bragg - Ruthven, Iowa
2Lt James H Jr LOGAN Bomber Prisoner - Camp inconnu  O-689476 - Dallas, Texas
Sgt Eugene J VODOPIA Radio Prisoner - Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow  20284029 - Hobeken, New Jersey - Brûlé au visage et aux mains
Sgt Albert G LITTLE Gunner Prisoner - Stalag Luft III Sagan-Silesia  12200348 - Buffalo, New York
S/Sgt Robert F ROIYER Gunner Dead Nondaga Cem. Bath, New York 32734233 - 23 ans - Né le 20/06/1921 - Fils de Claude et Edith Roiyer, Bath, New York - Parachute non ouvert
T/Sgt Ward O BOWMAN Gunner Dead MIA - Tablets Cim Am Rhône Draguignan 35034928 - AM+2/PH - Chillicothe, Ohio
S/Sgt William John RAMSEY Gunner Dead MIA 32710427 - New York, New York
Sgt Clyde K PETERS Gunner Prisoner - Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow  39692528 - Santa Paula, California
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SOURCE INFORMATION & SOURCE PHOTOAad.archives.gov - Francecrashes39-45.net - Findagrave.com - Abmc.gov
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