Agor, Richard Hopkin, SSgt

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Final Rank
Staff Sergeant
Last MOS
AAF MOS 611-Aerial Gunner
Last MOS Group
Air Crew (Enlisted)
Primary Unit
1943-1943, AAF MOS 611, 350th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy)
Service Years
1942 - 1943
Staff Sergeant

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Home State
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Year of Birth
1922
 
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Casualty Info
Home Town
Shamokin
Last Address
350th Bomb Squadron
Thorpe-Abbots, United Kingdom
Casualty Date
Oct 08, 1943
 
Cause
KIA-Killed in Action
Reason
Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location
Germany
Conflict
World War II
Location of Interment
Shamokin Cemetery - Shamokin, Pennsylvania
Military Service Number
13 052 841

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World War II Fallen
  1943, World War II Fallen


 1942-1943, B-17 Flying Fortress
From Year
1942
To Year
1943
   
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Specifications

Model Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress
Length 74.74 ft | 22.78 m
Width 103.74 ft | 31.62 m
Height 19.09 ft | 5.82 m
Engine(s) 4 x Wright Cyclone R-1820-97 radial piston engines generating 1,200 hp each.
Empty Weight 36,136 lbs | 16,391 kg
MTOW 72,003 lbs | 32,660 kg
Max Speed 287 mph | 462 km/h | 249 kts
Max Range 2,001 miles | 3,220 km
Ceiling 35,597 ft | 10,850 m | 6.7 miles
Climb Rate 540.5 ft/min (164.7 m/min)
Hardpoints 0
Armament 2 x 12.7mm machine guns in powered dorsal turret
2 x 12.7mm machine guns in powered "belly" turret
2 x 12.7mm machine guns in tail gun position
1 x 12.7mm machine gun in left front "cheek" position
1 x 12.7mm machine gun in right front "cheek" position
1 x 12.7mm machine gun in left waist position
1 x 12.7mm machine gun in right waist position
1 x 12.7mm machine gun in radio operator's midship position (removed on later models)
2 x 12.7mm machine guns in powered chin turret (later models)

Maximum internal bombload of 7,983 kg (17,600 lbs).
Accommodations 10
Operators United Kingdom and the United States of America.

   
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