Date of Incident09/12/1944
ConflictWorld War II 1941-1945
RankFirst Lieutenant
Unit562nd Bomb Squadron, 38th Bomb Group
StatusMissing in Action
Killed in Action (KIA) 12 September 1944 in B-17G #42-107085 'Little Chum'. Per the War Department First Lt Eugene Morton Creagh was piloting a B-17 bomber, when he was lost and unable to bail out before the bomber exploded in the air over Magdeburg, Germany.
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