James Airey Davis Jr
Military
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James Davis in Dalhart, Texas in 1944. Photo courtesy of the Davis family via Laura Edge, daughter of Engineer Lawrence Witt.
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Shot down 12 May 1944 in B-17 #42-107123. Prisoner of War (POW).
Re-enlisted as a Sergent in the USAAF in Albany, New York on 12 November 1946.
James Davis served in the Air Force in Korea and Viet-Nam.
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Units served with
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16089777 and O-757929
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35545015
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15113186 and O-809895
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 338th Bomb Squadron 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16160308
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer/Gunner
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Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Fort Hunter, New York, USA | 17 November 1923 | |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Gross Tychow/Tychowo, Poland | 12 May 1944 | Interned at Stalag Luft 4 in Gross Tychow/Tychowo, Poland. Moved by train on 2 February 1945 to Stalag XIID at Nuremberg, the last part on a forced march to that camp. NARA WWII POW records have him in Stalag Luft 3 in Sagan, Poland, from where he was force-marched to Stalag 7a in Moosburg, liberated on 29 April 1945 by US troops. NARA WWII POW records: "Returned to Military control 11 March 1946..." |
Died |
Gulfport, Mississippi, United States | 9 March 2007 | |
Buried |
Biloxi National Cemetery, Biloxi, Mississippi, United States |
Revisions
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Sources
MACR 5359
NARA WWII Enlistment records
NARA WWII POW records
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5359 / MACR 5359; Snetterton Falcons, pg 133 & 147 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database