Daniel F Donahue Jr

Military

Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #42-52392, Prisoner of War (POW).



POW

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'

458th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-52392

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Wabbit Twacks
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Elmhurst, New York, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Austria 8 April 1944 Stalag 17B Braunau Gneikendorf Near Krems Austria 48-15

Revisions

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Copied "Summary biography" from a Duplicate person as part of a merge operation of dup people so the dup person can be deleted.

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Deleted an "X" character from the middle name field.
Added POW camp info to the POW event and a S/N from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).

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Corrected the name by moving "Jr" from the surname field to the suffix field and moving the last name from the middle name field to the surname field.

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MACR 3786 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database