Family:
Samuel E. Cumming (father)
Jesse M. (McAnnally) Cumming (mother)
Alton Cumming (brother)
Robert B. Cumming (brother)
Service No. (ASN): O-423814
Unit 79th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group
Rank Captain U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From Texas
Date of Death November 7 1943
Status Missing In Action
Memorialized Tablets of the Missing*
Ardennes American Cemetery
Recipient of the Air Medal and Purple Heart
*Place of death: North Sea, 15 miles of the French coast, south of Beachy Head, England
Serial number: 42-67039
Type: P-38H
Destination: Les Mureaux, France
Mission: Bomber Escort
MACR: 1265
Source: Fields of Honor Website
P-38H-5-LO 42-67039 was assigned to 20FG/79FS at Kings Cliffe, UK. On 7-Nov-43 the aircraft, piloted by CPT Herbert W. Cumming, was flown to Nuthampstead to join with other P-38s from 55FG on a mission to escort B-26 bombers of 9th Air Force in an attack at Montdidier, France. He was joined by 7 others from the 20FG and these took off from Nuthampstead on the mission. The filght was attacked by German fighters over th English Channel and CPT Cumming and the aircraft crashed into the English Channel. 1KIA MACR 1265.
Source: American Air Museum Website
A graduate of Weatherford High School and attended A&M College for three years.
Capt Cumming worked for the Texas Highway Department when he enlisted in the service in 1940. He received his wings at Luke Field in Arizona and went overseas in September 1943.
He is memorialized in his home town of Weatherford in Clark Cemetery. His brother, Robert Bruce Cumming, killed in action in 1944 and missing in action while serving with the 357th Bomb Group, is memorialized in the same cemetery and is buried in the Cambridge American Cemetery, England.
Samuel E. Cumming (father)
Jesse M. (McAnnally) Cumming (mother)
Alton Cumming (brother)
Robert B. Cumming (brother)
Service No. (ASN): O-423814
Unit 79th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group
Rank Captain U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From Texas
Date of Death November 7 1943
Status Missing In Action
Memorialized Tablets of the Missing*
Ardennes American Cemetery
Recipient of the Air Medal and Purple Heart
*Place of death: North Sea, 15 miles of the French coast, south of Beachy Head, England
Serial number: 42-67039
Type: P-38H
Destination: Les Mureaux, France
Mission: Bomber Escort
MACR: 1265
Source: Fields of Honor Website
P-38H-5-LO 42-67039 was assigned to 20FG/79FS at Kings Cliffe, UK. On 7-Nov-43 the aircraft, piloted by CPT Herbert W. Cumming, was flown to Nuthampstead to join with other P-38s from 55FG on a mission to escort B-26 bombers of 9th Air Force in an attack at Montdidier, France. He was joined by 7 others from the 20FG and these took off from Nuthampstead on the mission. The filght was attacked by German fighters over th English Channel and CPT Cumming and the aircraft crashed into the English Channel. 1KIA MACR 1265.
Source: American Air Museum Website
A graduate of Weatherford High School and attended A&M College for three years.
Capt Cumming worked for the Texas Highway Department when he enlisted in the service in 1940. He received his wings at Luke Field in Arizona and went overseas in September 1943.
He is memorialized in his home town of Weatherford in Clark Cemetery. His brother, Robert Bruce Cumming, killed in action in 1944 and missing in action while serving with the 357th Bomb Group, is memorialized in the same cemetery and is buried in the Cambridge American Cemetery, England.
Family:
Samuel E. Cumming (father)
Jesse M. (McAnnally) Cumming (mother)
Alton Cumming (brother)
Robert B. Cumming (brother)
Service No. (ASN): O-423814
Unit 79th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group
Rank Captain U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From Texas
Date of Death November 7 1943
Status Missing In Action
Memorialized Tablets of the Missing*
Ardennes American Cemetery
Recipient of the Air Medal and Purple Heart
*Place of death: North Sea, 15 miles of the French coast, south of Beachy Head, England
Serial number: 42-67039
Type: P-38H
Destination: Les Mureaux, France
Mission: Bomber Escort
MACR: 1265
Source: Fields of Honor Website
P-38H-5-LO 42-67039 was assigned to 20FG/79FS at Kings Cliffe, UK. On 7-Nov-43 the aircraft, piloted by CPT Herbert W. Cumming, was flown to Nuthampstead to join with other P-38s from 55FG on a mission to escort B-26 bombers of 9th Air Force in an attack at Montdidier, France. He was joined by 7 others from the 20FG and these took off from Nuthampstead on the mission. The filght was attacked by German fighters over th English Channel and CPT Cumming and the aircraft crashed into the English Channel. 1KIA MACR 1265.
Source: American Air Museum Website
A graduate of Weatherford High School and attended A&M College for three years.
Capt Cumming worked for the Texas Highway Department when he enlisted in the service in 1940. He received his wings at Luke Field in Arizona and went overseas in September 1943.
He is memorialized in his home town of Weatherford in Clark Cemetery. His brother, Robert Bruce Cumming, killed in action in 1944 and missing in action while serving with the 357th Bomb Group, is memorialized in the same cemetery and is buried in the Cambridge American Cemetery, England.
Samuel E. Cumming (father)
Jesse M. (McAnnally) Cumming (mother)
Alton Cumming (brother)
Robert B. Cumming (brother)
Service No. (ASN): O-423814
Unit 79th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group
Rank Captain U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From Texas
Date of Death November 7 1943
Status Missing In Action
Memorialized Tablets of the Missing*
Ardennes American Cemetery
Recipient of the Air Medal and Purple Heart
*Place of death: North Sea, 15 miles of the French coast, south of Beachy Head, England
Serial number: 42-67039
Type: P-38H
Destination: Les Mureaux, France
Mission: Bomber Escort
MACR: 1265
Source: Fields of Honor Website
P-38H-5-LO 42-67039 was assigned to 20FG/79FS at Kings Cliffe, UK. On 7-Nov-43 the aircraft, piloted by CPT Herbert W. Cumming, was flown to Nuthampstead to join with other P-38s from 55FG on a mission to escort B-26 bombers of 9th Air Force in an attack at Montdidier, France. He was joined by 7 others from the 20FG and these took off from Nuthampstead on the mission. The filght was attacked by German fighters over th English Channel and CPT Cumming and the aircraft crashed into the English Channel. 1KIA MACR 1265.
Source: American Air Museum Website
A graduate of Weatherford High School and attended A&M College for three years.
Capt Cumming worked for the Texas Highway Department when he enlisted in the service in 1940. He received his wings at Luke Field in Arizona and went overseas in September 1943.
He is memorialized in his home town of Weatherford in Clark Cemetery. His brother, Robert Bruce Cumming, killed in action in 1944 and missing in action while serving with the 357th Bomb Group, is memorialized in the same cemetery and is buried in the Cambridge American Cemetery, England.
Inscription
CAPT 79 FIGHTER SQ 20 FIGHTER GP
TEXAS
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Entered the service from Texas.
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