Hawes Melvin A Lt

Assigned Aircraft

Not Known

Mission History

Flew 5 combat missions

Mission List

55th FG Mission #	Date	Target
64	22 March 1944	Berlin (Yellow 2)
65	23 March 1944	(Spare, no mission credit as no place to fill in)
66	24 March 1944	Metz (Yellow 2)
71	11 April 1944	Sorau - Cottbus (Yellow 2)
72	12 April 1944	Oscherleben Zwickau (Yellow 2)
73	13 April 1944	Augsburg (Yellow 2)

Air Scores

0-0-0

Ground Scores

0-0

Notes

ASN - O-444571
28 February 1944 - Assigned to the 38th Fighter Squadron
13 April 1944 - Bailed out over the English Channel (Bradwell Bay) and suffered broken arm and injuries to both his thighs. Rescued by Air Sea Rescue, Unit No. 27 after it had responded to an emergency call from a ditching 390th BG B-17 and came across Lt. Hawes by pure chance.
12 May 1944 - Relieved from assigned and transferred to Detachment of Patients, 48th General Hospital
Passed away in 1991.

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