Markrel Lawler Byrd
MilitaryAssigned to 79FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) escort Nancy, France in P-38 42-67854 hit by flak in starboard engine baled at as A/C on fire Evreux Prisoner of War . 6-Feb-44. MACR 2145.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Kingscliffe, Apethorpe
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Cherokee County, TX, USA | 10 December 1920 | |
Enlisted |
San Antonio, TX 78234, USA | 23 January 1941 | Fort Sam Houston San Antonio, Texas |
Based |
Kings Cliffe | 17 November 1943 - 6 February 1944 | Assigned to 79FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Other E/A Destroyed [0.5] |
Germany | 14 January 1944 | Shared destroyed ETO 14-Jan-44. |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Barth, Germany | 6 February 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I. |
Other Shot down / baled out |
Évreux, France | 6 February 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) escort Nancy, France in P-38J 42-67854 hit by flak in starboard engine baled at as A/C on fire Evreux Prisoner of War (POW). 6-Feb-44. MACR 2145. |
Died |
Waco, TX, USA | 24 January 1990 | |
Buried |
Rosemound Cemetery Waco McLennan County TX | 27 January 1990 | Rosemound Cemetery Waco McLennan County Texas, USA |
Jacksonville, TX 75766, USA |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2145 / MACR 2145, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces, King's Cliffe Memorial Edition
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