Joseph Carlos Mullins

Military
Joseph Mullins Joseph Mullins UPL 60243 S/Sgt Joseph C. Mullins, May 1945.

Via Anna Lengyelová

Object Number - UPL 60243 - S/Sgt Joseph C. Mullins, May 1945.

Prisoner of War (POW) near Schonau B-17 43-38048 19-Apr-45. After bailing out of the aircraft he landed in a tree (at some point he fractured his clavicle or shoulder girdle); under which the Germans were waiting for him. He was transferred to a hospital in Prague after capture.

 

Awards: AM, POW, American Campaign, EAME, WWII Victory.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 490th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 490th Bomb Group 849th Bomb Squadron

Places

Eye, home of the 490th Bomb Group, photographed from the air. Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'Eye from air.'
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Brome

Events

Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

Cincinnati, Ohio 18 September 1943 Enlisted Cincinnati, Ohio

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Prague, Czech 19 April 1945 - 1 May 1945 Prisoner of War (POW) Prague, Czech

Other

Discharged

31 October 1945

Died

Cincinnati, Ohio 11 June 1988 Died Cincinnati, Ohio

Buried

Rest Haven Memorial Park, Ohio 14 June 1988 Interred Rest Haven Memorial Park Evendale, Hamilton County, Ohio

Born

Crab Orchard, Kentucky Born Crab Orchard, Kentucky

Revisions

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my mother (his niece)

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 14195 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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