Monuments
B-24 'Double Trouble' (41-29244) Crash Site Marker
B-24 (41-29244) 'Double Trouble' Info Sign
Name:
Don Thomas Abernathy
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
Serial Number:
14158859
Unit:
725th Bomb Squadron
Date of Death:
2013-10-15
State:
Tennessee
Cemetery:
Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery, Tennessee
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Don Thomas Abernathy was born on January 2, 1922. He was the son of Eli Rufus Abernathy and Kate Emeline Roberts Abernathy.
Nose gunner of the B-25 Liberator 41-29244 “Double Trouble” that took off from Gioia del Colle, Italy on a mission to bomb the German Messerschmitt aircraft factory by Regensburg. Shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Slovenia. Five crew members went down with the plane and five parachuted from the severely damaged aircraft. Abernathy was taken prisoner of war to Stalag Luft 4 Gross Tychow where he remained until the end of the war.