John Moorman
 Commanding Officer of the 301st Bomb Group from Sept 44 to 8 Dec. 44
AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION - The World War II Honor Roll John D. Moorman Colonel, U.S. Army Air Forces Service # O-21178 Commander - Lt Col John D Moorman, Mar 1943 - 346th Bombardment Group (Heavy) Commander - Colonel John D Moorman, Sept. 1944 - 301st Bombardment Group, (Heavy) Headquarters, 301st Bomber Group, Heavy Entered the Service from: Oklahoma Died: 8-Dec-44 Buried at: Plot F Row 5 Grave 2 Sicily-Rome American Cemetery Nettuno, Italy Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster John D. Moorman, One Main Street, Oklahoma City, OK
Colonel John D. Moorman Graduated West Point 1938 Flight training Randolph Field, TX Assigned France Field, Canal Zone, Panama After Dec. 7, 1941, he was assigned to U.S. Southern Command HQ in Quarry Heights on opposite side of Panamanian Isthmus. October 1942 returned from Panama rank of Lt. Col. and assigned Commanding Officer Air Base, Casper,WY February 1943 assigned to Dyersburg Army Air Base, Tennessee, base commander - 346th Bombardment Group (Heavy) operational training and later as a replacement training unit. Promoted to Colonel March 1944 received orders for Flight Commander of the Mediterranean Group Headquarters in Italy Arrived Italy April 1944 Sept. 1944 - named Commander - 301st Bombardment Group DNB December 8, 1944 His wife, Mary Kirkpatrick Moorman rec'd message of his death on Dec 10th 1944
"The 301st Bomb Group Commander, Col. John Moorman, was returning from Foggia after the usual night session of reading the Battle Order for the next day's mission, at approximately 2200 hours on 8 December, when a freak wind, about 50 mph, blew down ten to twenty telephone poles beside the road between Foggia and Lucera. An insulator hit the Colonel on the head and killed him instantly. Col. Moorman had flown 25 missions. Riding with Col. Moorman, Lt. Col. Les Holman, Grp. Oper. Officer, managed to escape with only a bruised right shoulder. Holman on his second tour went on to fly over eighty missions"
 Celebration for the 200th mission for the 2nd BG, May 17, 1944. The mission was to Bihac, Yugoslavia L to R Col. John Moorman 301st BG Joseph Stuber - Bombardier, 429th Sqn 2nd BG James S. Stewart - Navigator, 96th Sqn 2nd BG Col. Herbert Rice, - Pilot. 20th Sqn 2nd B G Rodney Blaylock - Co-pilot, 429th Sqn 2nd BG Maj. Charles Clapp - 96th Sqn 2nd BG - Observer
Colonel John D Moorman was assigned to the 301st BG 301st HQ.
Military Occupational Specialty (MOS): Comanding Officer - 301st BG.
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11/24/1944 |
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