Sidney D. Whitman
Assigned to 93rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 32 combat missions over Europe in a B-24 from May 6 to July 25, 1944.
From the 2nd Air Division Association Yearbook
Assigned to 93rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 32 combat missions over Europe in a B-24 from May 6 to July 25, 1944.
Sortie Log
04 MAY 1944 — 22 MAY 1944
The sorties 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.
Born Jan. 24, 1917 in Erath County, TX. After high school and two years junior college, entered service with a National Guard unit in November 1940. Transferred to Air Force in February 1942. Attended several technical schools; assigned to a flying crew as flight engineer on a B-24 at Clovis, NM in 1943. Went overseas February 1944 from Mitchell Field, NY via Florida, Puerto Rico, South America, and Africa.