Jarrette De Leslie Bowen Sr
MilitaryAssigned to 384FS, 364FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) fighter bomber mission to Verdun, France. Hit by flak, strafing a train and factories, shut down one flaming engine, 2nd engine then caught fire, baled out very low, chute partly deployed. A/C P-38J 42-68063 crashed near Verdun 27-Jun-44 Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 6256.
Awards: DFC, AM (6OLC), PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME, OCC, UN and Korean medal.
Post war: Remained in USAF serving in Korea, rising to the rank of Major.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: 364th Fighter Group
Missions
- Date: 27 May 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: RAF Honington
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Harris County, TX, USA | 12 June 1916 | |
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Enlisted |
Houston, TX, USA | 9 February 1943 | |
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Other Crashed |
Goxhill, Barrow-upon-Humber DN19, UK | 14 May 1944 | aircraft was airborne from Goxhill on a cine-gun and instrument flying training sortie. On return to base the pilot, 2Lt Bowen approached starboard wing low, causing the right undercarriage mainleg to strike the runway with some force, breaking it. After going around for another approach 2Lt Bowen was unable to raise or lower the undercarriage even by using the emergency sytems. At this point the starboard engine's oil pressure dropped and 2Lt Bowen made a landing with the undercarriage up. 2Lt Bowen was unhurt and the aircraft sustained repairable Cat 3 damage. |
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Other Shot down |
55100 Verdun, France | 27 June 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) fighter bomber mission to Verdun, France. Hit by flak, strafing a train and factories, shut down one flaming engine, 2nd engine then caught fire, baled out very low, chute partly deployed. A/C P-38J 42-68063 crashed near Verdun 27-Jun-44 Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 6256. |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Barth, Germany | 27 June 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I. |
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Other Crashed |
Korea | 28 October 1950 | Landing Accident K-2 AB, Korea Cat 4 damage Lt Jarrette D L Bowen, 28-Oct-50. RF-80C 49-0447 - 8TRS 543TSG K-2 AB, KOR 5 |
| Texas, USA | |||
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Based |
Honington | 27 July 1944 | Assigned to 384FS, 364FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Died |
Tempe, AZ, USA |
Revisions
Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbapi.asp?Pilot=Bowen%2C+Jarrett…
http://www.bcar.org.uk/1944-incident-logs
http://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient.php?recipientid=42604
http://littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=Bowen&Submit=Search
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txclapor/GovtMilitary/TXWWIIPOWMIA_BO…
http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/p_flying_cross.htm#B
https://www.fold3.com/image/29402424
https://www.fold3.com/page/84821910_jarrette_d%20l%20bowen/details/
Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbapi.asp?Pilot=Bowen%2C+Jarrett…
http://www.bcar.org.uk/1944-incident-logs
http://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient.php?recipientid=42604
http://littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=Bowen&Submit=Search
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txclapor/GovtMilitary/TXWWIIPOWMIA_BO…
http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/p_flying_cross.htm#B
https://www.fold3.com/image/29402424
https://www.fold3.com/page/84821910_jarrette_d%20l%20bowen/details/
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 6256