Jack Lucas
MilitaryOn 23 January 1943 in B-17F #41-24580 'Hell Cat', 303BG/358BS while serving a Left Waist Gunner. The aircraft was downed by fighters near Brest. He was able to parachute to safety and was captured as a Prisoner of War (POW). He participated in 8 operations, credited with 4 Missions (see Biography events).
Connections
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Units served with
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 23 November 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 22 November 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 17 November 1942
Places
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Operation #1 Jack Lucas w/42-24558, 303BG/358BS Aborted |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 17 November 1942 | Served in 41-24558 'Hunga Dunga', 303BG/358BS as Left Waist Gunner. Aircraft aborted mission. (RTB OK) |
Other Operation #2 Jack Lucas w/42-24580, 303BG/358BS |
Lorient, France | 22 November 1942 | Served in 41-24580 'Hell Cat', 303BG/358BS as Left Waist Gunner. (RTB OK) |
Other Operation #3 Jack Lucas w/41-24558, 303BG/358BS |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 23 November 1942 | Served in 41-24558 'Hunga Dunga' as Tail Gunner. (RTB OK) |
Other Operation #4 Jack Lucas w/41-24580, 303BG/358BS Aborted |
Lille, France | 6 December 1942 | Served in B -17F 41-24580 "Hell Cat", 303BG/358BS as Left Waist Gunner. Aircraft aborted (RTB OK) |
Other Operation #5 Jack Lucas w/41-24580, 303BG/358BS |
Romilly-sur-Seine, France | 20 December 1942 | Served in B-17F 41-24580 "Hell Cat", 303BG/358BS as Right Waist Gunner. Aircraft aborted (RTB OK) |
Other Operation #6 Jack Lucas w/41-24606, 303BG/358BS |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 3 January 1943 | Served in B-17F 41-24606 "Werewolf", 303BG/358BS as Right Waist Gunner. |
Other Operation #7 Jack Lucas w/42-24562, 303BG/358BS |
Lille, France | 13 January 1943 | Served in B-17 F 41-24562 "Sky Wolf" as Right Waist Gunner. (RTB OK) |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Krems an der Donau, Austria | 23 January 1943 - 22 May 1945 | Held at Stalag 17B, Braunau-Gneikendorf (near Krems), Austria. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 22-May-45 |
Other Operation #8 Jack Lucas w/41-24580, 303BG/358BS |
Lorient, France | 23 January 1943 | Served in B-17F 41-24580 "Hell Cat" as Left Waist Gunner. Aircraft shot down. (POW) |
Born |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 4-Aug-43 Made Connections to ALL Mission participation per 303BG webssite Mission Reports, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/
Lee Cunningham 4-Aug-2015. Correcting date error on Operation #4.
Lee Cunningham 4-Aug-2015. Added Operations #1 thru #8 Biography events per 303BG webiste Mission Reports, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/
Lee Cunningham 22-Jan-2015. Added decoration, SN and POW event per National Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database; Corrected Role/Job per 303rd Bomb Group website: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-358-oconnor.html; Made connections to Place, AIrcraft and Mission within existing website data; Edited descritpion per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A Hey MBE.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit history, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs by Bishop and Hey Vol. 1 p. 65-66 MACR 15473,
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