Kenneth C McCabe

Military

Joined squad 3 August 1942. Shot down 14 May 1943 in B-24D 41-23819 'Rugged Bunny' while serving as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner on a mission to Kiel, Germany. Aircraft was attacked by fighters and crashed at Eckernforde, Germany. Prisoner of War (POW)

POW



NOTE: This entry COMBINES data Paul Andrews Project Bits and Pieces.



Fw 190 destroyed 3/8/43.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 44th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
B-24 Liberators of the 44th Bomb Group line up for takeoff at Shipdham in 1943. The 'Flying Eight-Ball' emblem of the 68th Bomb Squadron is visible on the nose of the leading aircraft. Image stamped with field press censor, 1943. Press Agency photograph- original printed caption has been removed.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Rugged Buggy
  • Unit: 44th Bomb Group 68th Bomb Squadron

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Prisoner of War (POW)

14 May 1943 - 3 July 1945 Held at Stalag 17B, Braunau-Gneikendorf (near Krems), Austria. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 3-Jul-45.

Born

DeKalb, Illinois

Revisions

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Sources

Lee Cunningham 17-Feb-2015. Added SN per MACR 15509; Added POW event per National Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database; Edited Biography per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; Added NOTE of combination of data from a duplicate entry from Paul Andrews Project Bits and Pieces.

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ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Webb Todd, MACR 15509, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol 1 by Bishop & Hey p. 119, picture of plane p. 118, NARA POW records