Wymond, Gilbert Osborne, Jr., Lt Col

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Last Rank
Lieutenant Colonel
Last Primary AFSC/MOS
AAF MOS 1055-Pilot, Single-Engine Fighter
Last AFSC Group
Pilot (Officer)
Primary Unit
1949-1949, AAF MOS 1065, 55th Fighter Squadron - Fighting Fifty-Fifth
Service Years
1941 - 1949
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Home State
Kentucky
Kentucky
 Year of Birth
1919
 
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Contact Info
Home Town
Louisville, Kentucky		 Last Address
Shaw AFB, South Carolina
Date of Passing
May 11, 1949		  
Location of Interment
Cave Hill Cemetery - Louisville, Kentucky

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Last Known Activity:

With the exception of 2 leave times, 1 in 1943 and 1 in 1944, he was commander of the 65th Fighter Sq. from May 1943 to May 1945. He was credited with destroying 3 enemy aircraft in aerial combat plus 2 probables. He was flying an F-84 Thunderjet when he was killed in a post-war crash in the US.

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  1941-1945, AAF MOS 1055, 57th Fighter Group

Lieutenant Colonel
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December / 1941 		To Month/Year
May / 1945
Unit
57th Fighter Group Unit Page
Rank
Lieutenant Colonel		 AFSC/MOS
AAF MOS 1055-Pilot, Single-Engine Fighter
Base, Station or City
Connecticut, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Malta, Sicily, Italy, Corsica, and Italy again		 State/Country
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 57th Fighter Group Details

57th Fighter Group
Type
Fighter 		 
Parent Unit
Fighter Units 		Strength
Group
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57th Fighter Group
Franklin, Elton Leland, Capt, (1937-1944) A23 AAF MOS 1055 Captain
Whittaker, Roy E., Col, (1940-1973) A23 AAF MOS 1055 Captain
Green, Herschel Harper, Col, (1941-1964) A23 AAF MOS 1055 First Lieutenant
Sneed, Marshall M., Capt, (1941-1943) A23 AAF MOS 1055 First Lieutenant
Tilley, Thomas Marshall, Col, (1941-1970) A23 AAF MOS 1055 First Lieutenant
Bradshaw, Ralph B., 1st Lt, (1941-1944) A23 AAF MOS 1055 Second Lieutenant
Suehr, Richard Charles, Lt Col, (1940-1968) A23 AAF MOS 1055 Second Lieutenant
Tilley, Thomas Marshall, Col, (1941-1970) A23 AAF MOS 1055 Second Lieutenant
French, Harry Albright, Brig Gen, (1940-1968) 102 1021A First Lieutenant
Bradshaw, Ralph B., 1st Lt, (1941-1944) A33 AAF MOS 770 Second Lieutenant
Bonnici, Harold Philip, 2nd Lt, (1943-1945) A08 Second Lieutenant
Bettinger, Stephen L., Col, (1942-1973) First Lieutenant
Welbes, Alvin, Lt Col, (1943-1973) Second Lieutenant
Geuin, Percy W., SSgt, (1942-1944) Staff Sergeant

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