William A Pope Jr
MilitaryHit by flak after falling out of formation on the return flight from a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-38177 'Shack Rabbits' crashed N of Nordham, GR. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
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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: Shack Rabbits
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Carson, New Mexico, USA | 24 September 1921 | |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Germany | 6 March 1944 | Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow (formerly Heydekrug) Pomerania, Prussia (moved to Wobbelin Bei Ludwigslust) (To Usedom Bei Savenmunde) 54-16 |
Revisions
Copied "Born event" from a Duplicate person as part of a merge operation of dup people so the dup person can be deleted.
Added POW camp info to the POW event and a S/N from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Copied "Summary biography" from a Duplicate person as part of a merge operation of dup people so the dup person can be deleted.
Corrected the name by moving "Jr" from the surname field to the suffix field and moving the last name from the middle name field to the surname field.
MACR 3091 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database