Jerome Brill

Military

Assigned to 754BS, 458BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down by flak and crashed at Diek on 29-Jun-44 in B-24 42-51095. Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7092





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

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 31090487 / O-691465
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Shoo Shoo Baby
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron

Places

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania 7 March 1924 Son of Joseph and Rose Brill.

Enlisted

Wilkes Barre, PA 24 March 1943 Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

Other

Baled out POW

Vollenhove, Netherland 29 June 1944 Shot down by flak and crashed at Diek on 29-Jun-44 in B-24 42-51095. Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7092

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Tychowo, Poland 29 June 1944 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV.

Other

Discharged USAAF

30 October 1945 Honourable discharge.

Died

Tallahassee, FL 11 January 2010

Buried

Oakland Cemetery, Tallahassee, FL 15 January 2010 Oakland Cemetery Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

Based

Horsham St Faith 29 June 1944 Assigned to 754BS, 458BG, 8AF USAAF.

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7092 & Page 273 of the book LIBERAORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010 &

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