Boyhan, Albert F.

Consolidated B-24 Liberator

Date of birth:: January 17th, 1919 (New York, United States)
Date of death:: February 8th, 1945 (Vienna, Austria)
Buried on:: Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial
Plot: D. Row: 4. Grave: 29.
Service number:: 0-819424
Nationality:: American

Biography

Lt Boyhan, Pilot, was killed after taking German flak and having a mid air collision with another B-24, The Calamity Jane who had also sustained massive flak damage from German artillery ground units. Lt Boyhan was awarded the Air Medal w/Oak Cluster and the Purple Heart posthumously.

Service years: 1942-1945

Do you have more information about this person? Inform us!

Air Medal (AM)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: 1st Lieutenant
Unit:: 725th Bombardment Squadron, 451st Bombardment Group, U.S. Army Air Forces

Posthumously awarded

Air Medal (AM)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: 1st Lieutenant
Unit:: 725th Bombardment Squadron, 451st Bombardment Group, U.S. Army Air Forces

Second AM posthumously received as bronze oak leaf cluster.

Purple Heart

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: 1st Lieutenant
Unit:: 725th Bombardment Squadron, 451st Bombardment Group, U.S. Army Air Forces

Posthumously awarded