Bernard R Howdowski

Military

Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down and became Prisoner of War (POW) on 30 September 1944, target Munster. By arrival at the T/A, two engines were out and a third running rough, so crew bailed out. Captured in Landerich Disctrict A/c crashed nine miles ESE of Munster, near Natarp. Plane was B-17G #4337632. 9 Prisoner of War (POW)

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8thAF, vol.4