Supports 6 facts
Escape and Evasion Report 403
Military Record · United States Army Air Forces · 1944 · Escape and Evasion Reports
Personal File · AirmanKilled in ActionPassed 07 Jan 1944
Vincent S. Sweet.
Engineer / Top Turret · 328th Squadron · Of NY.
The Man Behind the Name
§ Biography
S/Sgt. Vincent S. Sweet served as engineer and top turret gunner on B-24D 42-40990, 328th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group on the 7 January 1944 mission to Ludwigshafen. The crew flew with only nine men that day.
Sweet was listed as MIA on the original MACR filed 10 January 1944. The MACR form was subsequently annotated with KIA for his entry, though this status could not be confirmed from the crew questionnaires in this file.
French witnesses reported that two bodies were found in the burned wreckage of the aircraft near Foix. Sweet's ultimate fate was not definitively established in the surviving questionnaire records.
Service record.
§ As Catalogued
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Position
Engineer / Top Turret
Serial Number
32255810
Hometown
NY
Missions flown.
1 catalogued · 07 Jan 1944
The missions below are those we have been able to document for this airman, drawn from flight logs, mission records, and archival sources. It is not necessarily a complete account of every mission flown; gaps may reflect missing documentation, transferred assignments, or records lost to time.
№
Date
Target
Aircraft
№ 178
07 Jan 1944
Ludwigshafen
“On The Ball”
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Interment.
§ At Rest
Cemetery
Normandy American Cemetery
Location
B 19 39
Read the records.
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Supports 3 facts
Escape and Evasion Report 406
Military Record · United States Army Air Forces · 1944 · Escape and Evasion Reports
Supports 2 facts
Escape and Evasion Report 404
Military Record · United States Army Air Forces · 1944 · Escape and Evasion Reports
Supports 2 facts
Escape and Evasion Report 405
Military Record · United States Army Air Forces · 1944 · Escape and Evasion Reports
Sources.
§ Provenance
United States Army Air Forces · National Archives and Records Administration · 1944
Official record
United States Army Air Forces · National Archives and Records Administration · 1944
Official record
United States Army Air Forces · National Archives and Records Administration · 1944
Official record
United States Army Air Forces · National Archives and Records Administration · 1944
Official record
United States Army Air Forces · National Archives and Records Administration · 1944
Official record