Born: March 7, 1920
Captain, United States Army Air Forces Service# O-438503 PILOT, B-17 FLYING FORTRESS #42-5243
“FDR’S POTATO PEELER KIDS”
359TH BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON (HEAVY),
303RD BOMBER GROUP (H), EIGHTH AIR FORCE Date of Enlistment: July 12, 1941
Home or Place of Enlistment: Caldwell, Idaho Died: May 14, 1943 |
Based out of RAF Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, England, Cpt Bales Butterfield and nine other crewmen were Killed in Action when their B-17 was shot down by enemy aircraft and crashed into the North Sea while conducting combat operations against Nazi Germany during World War II.
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