Last Known Activity:
James G. McLamb was supposedly born in North Carolina in 1920, according to NARA enlistment records. His parentage is hard to discern as several people who fit the criteria have been found, but with no other records or sources to examine, family connections are not known.
What is known is that McLamb was drafted, and inducted into military service, on January 30, 1943 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. His enlistment file contains the fact that he had completed 4 years of high school, and was employed as a salesman. It also contains the notation he was married.
He was assigned to the Army Air Forces, and trained as an aerial gunner. He was then sent for crew training with a crew headed by Lt Goupill. This crew deployed to England, arriving there on November 25, 1943. They were dispatched on two combat missions.
On Dec 22, 1943, the crew flew as a spare on a bombing raid of Munster, Germany. It is not known which Bomb Group or Bomb Squadron they were supporting. The aircraft merely disappeared, and no circumstances of its loss is known. One crewman's body was recovered, and it is presumed the aircraft crashed into the North Sea.
All of the crew members except the recovered one are listed on the Walls of the Missing in the Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridge, England.
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Comments/Citation:
Sgt James G. McLamb was acting as a waist gunner on B-17G # 42-31071, named "Dorhelcia," assigned to the 418th Bomb Squadron.
Missing Air Crew Report 1705 was issued for this loss, but contains no details of the loss. Crew rosters show the crew as:
2 Lt Thomas F. Goupill, Jr. p
2 Lt Tenvil H. Jackson c-p
2 Lt Gus J. Mink nav
2 Lt Ralph Barker, Jr. bomb
SSgt Charles R. Gallagher eng/tt gun
SSgt Robert E. Ramsay r/o
Sgt George J. Brassell btg
Sgt Edward R. Csech wg
Sgt James G. McLamb wg
Sgt Fred Thompson tail gun
Ranks and grades as of mission date.
Sgt Brassell (Atchison crew) was replacing Sgt Russell L. Abel (original crew) for this mission.
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