Jerry Vance LeFors
MilitaryJerry LeFors was Co-Pilot on the 8 October 1943 mission to Bremen, Germany. On the 14 October 1943 one to Schweinfurt, Germany, he was shot down in B-17 #42-3453. Prisoner of War (POW)
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32421887
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35662827
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16067300 at enlistment, then O-676959
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37306589
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14090954 at enlistment, then O-798019
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 94th Bomb Group 333rd Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 14 October 1943
- Date: 8 October 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Station 138
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Oklahoma | 19 July 1921 | |
Enlisted |
30 March 1942 | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | |
Other captured |
14 October 1943 | after bailing out of 42-3453 over Schweinfurt, Germany | |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
14 October 1943 | Interned at Stalag Luft 3, Sagan, Poland. Force-marched from there to Stalag 7A, Moosburg, Germany, where liberated by US troops on 29 April 1945. NARA WWII POW records: "Returned to Military Control 12 May 1945." | |
Died |
8 April 2008 | Las Vegas, Nevada | |
Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma |
Revisions
ContributorED-BB
Changes
Sources
MACR 831
NARA WWII Enlistment records
NARA WWII POW records
SSDI Death Index
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self; MACR 831; Snetterton Falcons pg 61 & 76