Lionel Correia
MilitaryShot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #42-3497. Prisoner of War (POW).
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13152765
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14133944
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18217431
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35474211
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-670009
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 10 October 1943
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Taunton, Massachusetts, USA | 14 August 1918 | |
Enlisted |
Boston, Massachusetts,USA | 14 August 1941 | as a Private in the Air Corps |
Other bailed out |
10 October 1943 | over Holland out of stricken B-17 #42-3497 | |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Zagan, Poland | 10 October 1943 | Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) 49-11 |
Died |
Oregon, USA | 20 May 2010 | |
Buried |
Lionel Correia rests at the Gethsemani Catholic Cemetery in Happy Valley, Oregon |
Revisions
Contributorjmoore43
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Added a POW event per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Contributorjmoore43
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Added an association to Stalag Luft 3 per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
ContributorED-BB
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Corrected last name : it's Correia, not Correlia
NARA WWII Enlistment Records
NARA WWII POW Records
ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 943 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database