Merle D Green
Military
Object Number - UPL 36767 - Merle D. Green
Enlisted Sept. 9th, 1942. Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down at Gelnhausen on 9/11/44 in B-17 Green Hornets #4231653
POW
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Wing
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Erie Ferry, Kac's Flak Shack, Green Hornets
- Unit: 94th Bomb Group 410th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 11 September 1944
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Born |
Springfield, Illinois | 3 November 1921 | |
|
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Germany | 9 November 1944 | |
|
Died |
15 January 1976 |
Revisions
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=60525&h=223287&indiv=t…
Can send obituary for M. Green noting Distinguished Flying Cross award, place of birth and date of death.
http://www.8thafhs.com/get_one_acgroup.php?acgroup_id=7
42-31653 Delivered: Cheyenne 2/12/43; Helena 4/12/43; Gt Falls 5/12/43; Cheyenne 6/12/43; Kearney 12/12/43; New Castle 17/12/43; Presque Is 19/12/43; Assigned: 410BS/94BG [GL-V] Rougham 26/12/43 ERIE FERRY; MIA Bohlen 11/9/44 Pilot: Merle Green, Irving Metzger, Frank Jones, Lou Lehere, Pete Riley, Jim Gegenheimer, George Ostrowski (7POW); Jack Williams, Sid Hatfield (2KIA); mid air coll w/42-97153 (94BG) badly damaging nose, crashed Gelnhausen, Germany. MACR 8840. KAC'S FLAK SHAK aka GREEN HORNETS.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 8840 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
