James S Manford

Military

Prisoner of War (POW) crashed at Sonthofen on 25 Feb 45 in B-17 #4338648

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Units served with

A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.

486th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

43-38648

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Luling, Texas, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

North Sea 25 February 1945

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 12578 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database