Phillip D Vaught
Military
George Allen is back row left with Phillip D Vaught Next to him Roger Freeman Collection
Identified Phillip Vaught with info from his Great Nephew Allen Vaught via Facebook
Object Number - FRE 1143 - A bomber grew of the 306th Bomb Group with their B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-37943) nicknamed "Weary Bones". George Allen is back row...
Shot down by fighters and crashed near Charleville, FR on 25 Feb 1944 in B-17G #42-31245. Prisoner of War (POW) at Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow (formerly Heydekrug) Pomerania, Prussia (moved to Wobbelin Bei Ludwigslust) (To Usedom Bei Savenmunde) 54-16. He flew on the B-17 'Weary Bones' piloted by Walter Keilt until mission to Schweinfurt on 24 Feb 1944 when the B-17 was sent to hanger for repairs then Vaught and William Wiersma were assigned as replacements on Lt. Coleman crew [was shot down with this crew on Augsburg mission the following day].
POW, AM 2Oak Leaf Cluster,
His death in 1986 in Texas was reported in the Oct '97 edition of 306th Echoes.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Briegeprt, Texas, USA | ||
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
France | 25 February 1944 |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2768 / MACR 2768, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces, First Over Germany pg. 220-1, NARA, / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
