Cleveland J Romero

Military

Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Innien on 14 Jan 45 in B-17 #448263

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Units served with

34th Bomb Group

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

7th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

44-8263

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Unit: 34th Bomb Group 7th Bomb Squadron

Places

B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 34th Bomb Group at Mendelsham. Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'Mendelsham Red Sqdn, 18 BS 5/45.'

Mendlesham

Site type: Airfield
Known as: RAF Mendlesham

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Other Prisoner of War (POW)	Germany	14 January 1945

Event

Location

Date

Description

Born

Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany

14 January 1945

Revisions

Date18 Feb 2016 12:08:54

ContributorLucy May

Changes

Sources

Changed role/job from Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner to Tail Gunner after correspondence with Cleveland Romero's son, Bob.

Date27 Sep 2014 18:06:27

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

1996 34th BG Roster MACR 11565 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 11565 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database