John W Conway Jr
MilitaryPrisoner of War (POW) crashed near Wolfsburg on 22 Feb 45 in B-17 'Beatty's 8-Balls' #43-39128 Mention in Hell from Heaven: Memoirs of a WW II B-17 Bombardier by Leonard Streitfeld pg. 121
married Juanita Rhoda Guevara on June 28, 1947.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: “Beatty's 8-Balls”
- Unit: 398th Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born Emancipated in 1945 when Patton came through Germany and freed the POW’s |
Rochester New York | 28 December 1920 - 15 June 2012 | |
Born Prisoner of war |
22 February 1945 | ||
Born |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 12650