Thomas P SMITH Jr

ARMY SERIAL NUMBER

O-759767 (14158384)

AGE

22 yo

DATE OF BIRTH

1922

STATE

ILLINOIS

FAMILY

Maried: Grace C

RANK

1^st Lieutenant

FONCTION

Pilot

JOB before ENLISTEMENT

DATE of ENLISTEMENT

9 october 1942 Camp Forrest TENNESSE

SQUADRON

322^nd Bomber Squadron,

BOMBER

91^st Bomber Group (H)

ARMY

8^th Air Corps

DATE OF DEATH

13 august 1944

STATUS

KIA

PLACE OF DEATH

Le Manoir (Eure)

DATA PLAN

B-17 Fortress - type G - s/n 42-107030 LG*T "Fifinella" Macr: 7898
Take-Off Station 121 Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire UK for 54^th Mission
direct hit of flak in the cockpit - the driver loops above Incarville to allow the evacuation of the crew
The aircraft crashed on the house Baudry, having destroyed the old Calvary Street Epreville at 13:03
Crossing the Street Epreville and Rue des Pres - Epreville - Capt Incarville - near Louviers.

Crew "Fifinella"

CEMETERY

NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY from Colleville

Map Normandy American Cemetery

GRAVE

Plot	Row	Grave
A	13	4

DECORATION

Purple Heart

AM + 3 OLC

STORY

Date of August 13, 1944 when he had to bomb the railway bridge on the Seine in Normandy Manor, his B-17 was hit by flak at the oxygen that exploded and set fire Thomas barrel is seriously injured he made the rounds to his crew may be able to parachute but when his turn his parachute could not open his co-pilot took it with him, but Thomas died while descending after these injuries.