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Personal info

Full name
TALBOT, Frank Merrill III "Bud"
Date of birth
21 September 1916
Age
27
Place of birth
Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
Hometown
Monroe, Adams County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
O-738288
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
Pilot
Unit
327th Bombardment Squadron,
92nd Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
14 October 1943
Place of death
Approximately ½ mile from Villingen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 50 22

Immediate family

Members
Frank M. Talbot Jr. (father)
Myla D. (Smith) Talbot (mother)
Robert M. Talbot (brother)
Philip S. Talbot (brother)
Helene (Mahan) Talbot (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
42-30824
Data
Type: B-17F
Destination: Schweinfurt, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the ball bearing factory
MACR: 847

More information

2nd Lt Frank M. Talbot attended college and was a clerk before he volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States in La Fayette, Indiana on 24 March 1942.

S/Sgt Arlen R. Hermon:
Thirty to forty minutes after leaving the target near Villingen, Germany, five of the crew members bailed out at an altitude of between 300 and 500 feet after the aircraft was shot in two by an ME 110. The ship went down and burned.

He didn’t bail out.

He is remembered at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov – Helene M. Talbot, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Marriage Index, www.fold3.com – MACR, www.findagrave.com – MAJ Jimmy Cotton / G Kirkley

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Damaris Acevedo / G Kirkley, www.abmc.gov – Helene M. Talbot