Leonard Raymond Griffith
MilitaryIWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Assigned to the 384th BG 544th BS on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #146 dated 17 November 1943, Edward Fioretti Crew. 23 combat missions.
Attacked by fighters and the pilot injured and several fires on board on mission to Brunswick on 30 Jan 1944, B-17G #42-31415 returned with the fires extinquished but five of the crew had baled out over Germany. RTD.
Shot down 13 April 1944 in B-17 #42-38112, MRS GEEZIL. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
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Units served with
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15080142
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 6847286
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32360522
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32413026
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
Aircraft
Missions
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Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Freeport, New York, USA | ||
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Germany | 13 April 1944 | POW Camp: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12 |
Died |
New York, NY, USA | ||
Buried |
Uniondale Uniondale, Nassau County, New York, USA Plot: section 54 |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3869 / MACR 3968, 8th AF Losses, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=… / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database