James Airey Davis Jr
Military
Removed associations not depicted in image
Object Number - UPL 22025 - James Davis in Dalhart, Texas in 1944. Photo courtesy of the Davis family via Laura Edge, daughter of Engineer Lawrence Witt.
Shot down 12 May 1944 in B-17 #42-107123. Prisoner of War (POW).
Re-enlisted as a Sergent in the USAAF in Albany, New York on 12 November 1946.
James Davis served in the Air Force in Korea and Viet-Nam.
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34071991
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11083341 and O-709308
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12099172 and O-818664
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35545269
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19011806
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 12 May 1944
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Fort Hunter, New York, USA | 17 November 1923 | |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Gross Tychow/Tychowo, Poland | 12 May 1944 | Interned at Stalag Luft 4 in Gross Tychow/Tychowo, Poland. Moved by train on 2 February 1945 to Stalag XIID at Nuremberg, the last part on a forced march to that camp. NARA WWII POW records have him in Stalag Luft 3 in Sagan, Poland, from where he was force-marched to Stalag 7a in Moosburg, liberated on 29 April 1945 by US troops. NARA WWII POW records: "Returned to Military control 11 March 1946..." |
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Died |
Gulfport, Mississippi, United States | 9 March 2007 | |
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Buried |
Biloxi National Cemetery, Biloxi, Mississippi, United States |
Revisions
MACR 5359
NARA WWII Enlistment records
NARA WWII POW records
Added photo
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5359 / MACR 5359; Snetterton Falcons, pg 133 & 147 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
