Bernard Martin Blaum

Military

Assigned to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to return from Graypea mission (chaff dispensing) mission to Hamburg, Germany in Mosquito RF996, 20-Mar-45. Suffered fuel vapour lock to both engines. Baled out over Fohr, Germany Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 13185



Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'

25th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance

People

Joseph Albert Polovick

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 654th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 15133874 / O-722149
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

RF996

  • Aircraft Type: Mosquito
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 654th Bomb Squadron

Places

Dulag Luft 12

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
Prisoners of war, including Colonel Hubert Zemke of the 479th Fighter Group at Stalag Luft I.

Stalag Luft I

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Wilkes Barre, Luzerne Couny, PA 24 October 1920 Son of Louis William and Caroline [Anstett] Blaum.

Enlisted

Wilkes Barre, PA 12 December 1942 Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

Other

Baled out POW

Fohr, Germany 20 March 1945 Failed to return from Graypea mission to Germany in Mosquito RF996, 20-Mar-45; Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 13185

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Barth, Germany 20 March 1945 Prisoner of War (POW). Held at Stalag Luft I.

Buried

Saint Mary's Cemetery, Hanover Township, Luzerne County, PA 24 March 1991 Saint Mary's Cemetery Hanover Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Died

Cherry Hill, NJ 31 March 1991

Based

Watton 20 March 1945 Assigned to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF.

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Sources

Combat Chronology, Unit History; Aerial Intelligence of the 8th Air Force, pg 13, 71, 177 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia