George Horace Hockenberry

Military

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Units served with

The insignia of the 388th Bomb Group.

388th Bomb Group

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

People

Clarence Asbury Gridley

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-800876
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-31194

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Duchess of Dixie
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Duncannon, PA 29 January 1921

Other

388th BG Combat Tour

Kenttishall Airfield, UK 29 November 1943 - 6 March 1944

Other

POW

Tychowo, Poland 15 March 1944 Stalag Luft IV

Died

Elizabethtown, PA 29 March 2000 entinel, The (Carlisle, PA) - Monday, March 27, 2000 George H. Hockenberry, 79, of Duncannon, died Sunday, March 26, 2000 at Masonic Homes, Elizabethtown. Born Jan. 29 1921 in Duncannon, he was a son of the late Wilbur and Mary Harp Hockenberry and the widower of A. Jane McKelvey Hockenberry. Retired from Conrail, he was a U.S. Army Air Force veteran of World War II with a Purple Heart, Air Medal with three Bronze Leaf Clusters, a Prisoner of War medal and a Bronze Service Star. He was a past fire chief of Duncannon Fire Co. He was a member of Asbury United Methodist Church, Perry Lodge 458 F&AM, Harrisburg Consistory, Zembo Temple, Caterpilar Club, 388 Bombadeers, Perdix Fire Company, life member of VFW Post 255 and American Legion Post 340. Mr. Hockenberry is survived by two sons, George H. Jr. of Florida and Arden of Duncannon; two daughters, Annamarie Loper and Patricia Ann Rapp, both of Duncannon; two sisters, Emma Klinepeter of Duncannon and Margaret Gallagher of Marysville; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Services will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. in Ronald C. L. Smith Funeral Home, 325 N. High St., Duncannon, with the Rev. David Willard officiating. Burial with military honors will be in Duncannon Cemetery. Friends may call Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. with a Masonic service at 8:45 p.m. Memorial contributions can be made to Masonic Homes, Lafayette East Unit, Elizabethtown, PA 17022 or World War II Memorial Fund, 2300 Clarendon Blvd., Suite 501, Arlington, VA 22201.

Buried

Duncannon, PA 1 April 2000 Duncannon Presbyterian Cemetery Duncannon, Perry County, Pennsylvania, USA

Other

Shot Down/Wounded/Captured

Schoeningsdorf, Germany 6 March 1944 Shot down by ME109s and crashed W of Meppen, GR on the return from a mission to Klein Machow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-31194 'Duchess of Dixie'. Prisoner of War (POW).

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3034, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / MACR 3084 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database