mkite93 Posted December 30, 2020 Share #1 Posted December 30, 2020 I wanted to share the story of the pilot who’s medals I just acquired to honor his service and sacrifice since we are coming up on the anniversary of he and his crew being listed as missing in action. I am still working on hopefully getting the citations for his DFC and Air Medal. It does appear from my research so far he was the only member of his crew to earn the DFC. The lieutenant was in the 21st bomb squadron with the 11th Air Force in the Aleutians campaign. On his mission of January 18th 1943 three B24s were lost. One crash landing on an island with no loss of life the other two were missing. Due to the harsh Alaskan weather in January a search and rescue operation was not possible for two days after the mission, no trace of either plane was found. All three of his medals are numbered and posthumously awarded to him. I am honored to add an Aleutians grouping to my collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Crow 1986 Posted December 30, 2020 Share #2 Posted December 30, 2020 Thanks for assuming responsibility as Lieutenant Bloomfield's caretaker. Bless'em all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decwriter Posted December 30, 2020 Share #3 Posted December 30, 2020 Congrats on your acquisition. They are a nice set of medals and thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stratasfan Posted December 30, 2020 Share #4 Posted December 30, 2020 Wow! My GGGUncle was in the Aleutians in 1943. He was with the 36th BS, though. He would be KIA over Kiska a few months later. Thanks for sharing the grouping! Amazing! Question . . . is there a place to find out if an awarded medal was numbered? Wondering if my GGGUncle's AM and PH were numbered? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottplen Posted December 31, 2020 Share #5 Posted December 31, 2020 Very nice and not too common ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkite93 Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share #6 Posted December 31, 2020 Thanks everyone for the comments. I am glad I can be the caretaker of this grouping. in my searching I did find some information on the Find a grave website about some some of his crew members. One of which mentioned the air medal citation for that crewman. I can imagine the pilots read something similar. Stratasfan. Wow that is interesting that your uncle severed in the Aleutians. As far as the medals hard to say if his were numbered or not. Possibly? Probably? I could be wrong on but it’s possible if they were that they are listed on the general orders issuing the medals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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