Winfred L Pugh

Military
Black and white posed headshot of man wearing a uniform of a jacket, shirt, tie and hat. There are silver wings on the upper left-side of the jacket, and a WWII-era Air-Force silver officer insignia badge on the center of hat. There are aviation insignia pins on the jacket lapels. Subject is looking right in lens and is not smiling UPL 60298 UPL 60298 Winifred L. Pugh, 750th BS, 457th BG

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Object Number - UPL 60298 - Winifred L. Pugh, 750th BS, 457th BG

Shot down 24 August 1944 in B-17 #4297571. Prisoner of War (POW).

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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

Aircraft

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-97571) of the 457th Bomb Group lands at Glatton. Handwritten caption on reverse: '571 lost on the mission to Weimar, Germany 24 Aug 1944. Pilot Lt Winfred Pugh. Landing at Glatton, Rose Court Farm in background.'

42-97571

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 750th 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

Stalag VII-A

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

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Michigan, USA

Other

POW

Germany 24 August 1944

Revisions

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Contributoracbernstein1
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Sources

https://457thbombgroupassoc.org/officers-and-enlisted-men-portraits/

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ContributorLucy May
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http://www.ww2pow.info/index.php?page=directory&rec=105365

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Contributorgeneral ira snapsorter
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Merged with duplicate entry to include information:
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia;
www.457thbombgroup.org/roster/Pnames.html

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ContributorAAM
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Sources

MACR 8201 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

Winfred L Pugh: Gallery (1 items)

Black and white posed headshot of man wearing a uniform of a jacket, shirt, tie and hat. There are silver wings on the upper left-side of the jacket, and a WWII-era Air-Force silver officer insignia badge on the center of hat. There are aviation insignia pins on the jacket lapels. Subject is looking right in lens and is not smiling

Object number: UPL 60298 - Winifred L. Pugh, 750th BS, 457th BG