Richard Horace Getchell
MilitaryShot down 9 October 1943 in B-17 #42-30790 'Cue Ball', Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Connections
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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
- Nicknames: Cue Ball
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 511th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Zagan, Poland | 9 October 1943 | Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) 49-11 |
Revisions
Updated middle name per MACR 878 at fold3.com.
Source: https://www.fold3.com/image/28611518/28611524
Updated the location of the "POW" event per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Added an association to Stalag Luft III per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=3159&mtch=1&tf=F&q=Ri…
Added a "-" to the A/C tail # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 878 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database