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Personal info

Full name
EATON, Thomas E
Date of birth
1924
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Illinois
Hometown
Lawrence County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
O-741892
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Pilot
Unit
525th Bombardment Squadron,
379th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 January 1944
Place of death
Dägeling, Steinburg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
D 4 46

Immediate family

Members
Flaurice E. Eaton (father)
Helen Eaton (mother)
Betty Eaton (sister)
George Eaton (brother)

Plane data

Serial number
42-31093
Data
Type: B-17G
Nickname: Deacon's Sinners
Destination: Kiel, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the port
MACR: 1944

More information

A/C 42-31093, Deacon's Sinners was rammed by an Me-109 after the bomb run, and the airplane blew up and disintegrated.

Thomas Eaton was initially buried on 7 January 1944 at the cemetery of Muensterdor.

Eight crew members were killed, two were taken prisoner.

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, Terry Hirsch, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Alan Tomasi, Merced Army Flying School - Class 43D