Dee Jack Butler
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Dee Butler was Co-Pilot of B-24 'Rhapsody In Junk' #41-28733, shot down by flak on the 18 June 1944 mission to the Fassberg airfield, Germany. Crashed in Blick, Germany, near the village Süderbrarup in Schleswig-Holstein. Prisoner of War (POW) Stalag Luft III and Stalag VII-A.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35791387
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner / Flight Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 39276036
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15327020 and O-698015
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32472369 and O-813561
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
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Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Idaho, United States | 11 August 1920 | |
Enlisted |
Santa Ana, California, United States | 22 February 1943 | in the Air Corps as an Aviation Cadet |
Other Captured |
Kappeln, near Schleswig, Germany | 18 June 1944 | Landed in parachute and was immediately captured |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Sagan, Poland | 18 June 1944 - 29 April 1945 | Interned at Stalag Luft 3, Poland. Force-marched to Stalag 7A Moosburg, Germany. Liberated there by US troops on 29 April 1945. NARA WWII POW records : "Returned to Military control 21 July 1945." |
Died |
Saint George, Washington County, Utah, United States | 25 September 1992 | |
Ogden, Utah, United States | |||
Buried |
Leavitt's Mortuary & Aultorest Memorial Park, Ogden, Utah, United States |
Revisions
Additional information sent through to the American Air Museum by Thomas F Jeffers' daughter, Marilyn.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5908 & Page 273 of the book LIBERAORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010 & 458bg.com - crew picture in Newell's crew in 754th BS