William Powell Perkinson

Military

Assigned to 755BS, 458BG, 8AF USAAF. 2nd combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Aschersleben in B-24 42-95008; Shot down by fighters and crashed near Papenburg on 29-Jun-44 Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7086



Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'

458th Bomb Group

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

People

Robert Harrison Hannaman

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16009951 / O-743444
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-95008

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Able Mabel
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron

Places

Dulag Luft 12

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12

Stalag VII-A

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag 7a, Moosburg

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Hopewell, Virginia 4 October 1918 Son of Julian Epps and Gertrude Ledbetter [Wills] Perkinson.

Enlisted

Richmond, VA 1 February 1943 Richmond, Virginia

Other

Baled out POW

Papenburg, Germany 29 June 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Aschersleben in B-24 42-95008; Shot down by fighters and crashed near Papenburg on 29-Jun-44 POW MACR 7086

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Moosburg, Bavaria 26 September 1944 Prisoner of War (POW), Stalag VIIa.

Died

Smyrna, GA 20 March 1996

Buried

25 March 1996 Arlington National Cemetery Arlington, VA

Based

Horsham St Faith 29 June 1944 Assigned to 755BS, 458BG, 8AF USAAF.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7086 & Page 280 of the book LIBERATORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010