Lester F Schrenk

Military
media-5635.jpeg UPL 5635 Lester F Schrenk.
Taken at Sheppard Field, Witchita Falls, Texas in 1943.

Caption information from Lester Schrenk.

Object Number - UPL 5635 - Lester F Schrenk. Taken at Sheppard Field, Witchita Falls, Texas in 1943.

Lester F. Schrenk, ("Les") Sgt., U.S. Eighth Air Force, 92nd Bomb Group, 327th Squadron, B-17 Pot O' Gold, POW for 15 months.



Danish Bibliography and Filmography about Les Schrenk (with translator button)

Les has a Chapter in Don Ward's book Minnesota's Greatest Generation of Silver Wings and is in Thomas Saylor's book Long Hard Road: American POWs During World War II.

Les also wrote articles about the Ball Turret position. and his Life Story and his POW experiences. See downloadable attachments (.pdf) at his 8th AFHS-MN webpage at

https://sites.google.com/site/8thafhsmn/pictures/lester-schrenk

See also:

BBC WW II People's War



Shot down by fighters and crashed near Thisted, Denmark on a mission to Aalborg, Denmark on 22 Feb 1944 in B-17G #42-31377, nicknamed "Pot O' Gold". Prisoner of War (POW).



The website http://www.airmen.dk contains a lot of detailed information on aircraft

and crew that came down in Denmark during the Second World War.



See this plane http://www.airmen.dk/p271.htm and this airman http://www.airmen.dk/o888186.htm



On 23 April 2012, Les met the German pilot, Hans Hermann Muller, who shot down his aircraft in 1944.



Here are links to some of the pages that tell Les Schrenk's story:

The story of the crash in Lester's own words: http://www.airmen.dk/o888186fi.htm

'How I met the German Pilot': http://www.airmen.dk/o888186-hhm4.htm

The story of the meeting of Lester Schrenk and Hans Hermann Muller in 2012: http://www.airmen.dk/o888186-hhm2.htm

Connections

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Units served with

The insignia of the 92nd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Pot O Gold
  • Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 327th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Denmark 22 February 1944 - 3 May 1945

Born

Long Prairie, Minnesota, USA

Revisions

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ContributorLars McKie
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Amended the POW timeline to state correct dates - source is MACR2750 and Mr Schrenk's recollections.

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ContributorLucy May
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Amended links and spelling.

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ContributorLucy May
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http://www.airmen.dk/o888186.htm and other connected pages on the website.

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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 / MACR 2750 / MACR 2750, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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