Melvin M Fox

Military

Assigned to 749BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Oranienburg in B-17 44-8368 10-Apr-45; shot down by enemy jet, crashed Bernau, Germany; Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 13882



Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

Unofficial emblem of the 457th Bomb Group.

457th Bomb Group

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

People

Adrien Alexander Belanger

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 31072000
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator
Man wearing a uniform of jacket, shirt, tie, and hat with insignia. Only upper torso and head are visible. Man is posed at a slight angle and looking off into the distance. There is a WWII-era Air Force insignia on hat.

Lloyd John Blood

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32856964
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner

Roderick Leland Francis

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron 750th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-438016
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Squadron Commander; Co-Pilot

Monroe John Hotaling

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-563353
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Monroe J Hotaling

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 750th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner, Tail Gunner

Aircraft

44-8368

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron

Places

The mission board of the 457th Bomb Group. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-299-2-457)(16/5/45)(Op's Board's).'

Glatton

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Connington

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany 10 April 1945 Prisoner of War (POW)

Born

Ottawa, Illinois, USA Son of Frank E Fox.

Based

Honington 10 April 1945 Assigned to 749BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF.

Revisions

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Sources

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Sources

1993 457th BGA Roster MACR 13882 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 13882 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database