495 FTG / HQ SQN

2LT BREW, BENJAMIN A.

From Muscogee County, Georgia.

KNO (Killed on a Non Operational flight) on 23-7-1944 as pilot of P-47D / #41-6234 / VM-'?'.

Took off from Atcham on a non-operational flight. Lt Brew disregarded instructions and tagged on to another flight and flew to the Welch coast near Towyn. The flight turned north and decided to buzz a ship. Lt Brew was third in line and stalled out from about 700 feet, about one mile from the coast of Nefyn, Caernarvonshire. KNO.

2Lt Brew is commemorated on the Cambridge Cemetery Tablets of the Missing.

Source: USAAF Class Book Research Project

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Benjamin A Brew