Paul Eugene Simerly
MilitaryAssigned to 731st BS, 452BG, 8AF USAAF. 9 x combat missions. Continuous attacks by fighters on the return from a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944, forced B-17G #42-31354 to make a forced landing SE of Magdeburg. Prisoner of War (POW).
Awards: PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 731st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36107992 / O-747352
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lounge Lizard, Dixie Jane
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 452nd Bomb Group 731st Bomb Squadron
Missions
![A bomber crew of the 381st Bomb Group return to base after a mission in their B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31761) nicknamed "Rotherhithe's Revenge". Image stamped on reverse: 'Sunday Pictorial for Censor.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 10 Mar 1944.' [stamp] and '310673.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'BACK FROM BERLIN. Scenes this week at a Bomber station of the U.S. Air Force , somewhere in England. The crew of the Flying Fortress "Rotherhithe's Revenge", a British subscribed ship](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-380068.jpg.webp?itok=3h76SN3N)
- Date: 8 March 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Cranberry, NC | 18 November 1920 | Son of Clyde Green and Ibbie Jane [McKinney] Simerly. |
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Enlisted |
Atlanta, GA | 9 January 1943 | Atlanta, Georgia |
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Other Crash landing POW |
Se of Magdeburg | 8 March 1944 | Continuous attacks by fighters on the return from a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944, forced B-17G 42-31354 to make a forced landing SE of Magdeburg. POW MACR 3191 |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Tychowo, Poland | 8 March 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV. |
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Other Discharged USAAF |
8 October 1945 | Honourable discharge. | |
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Died |
Piney Flats, TN | 18 March 2001 | |
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Buried |
Mountain Home National Cemetery Johnson City, Washington County, TN | 21 March 2001 | Mountain Home National Cemetery Johnson City, Washington County, TN Section MM, Row 7, Site 29 |
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Based Prisoner of War (POW) |
Deopham Green | 8 March 1944 | Assigned to 731st BS, 452BG, 8AF USAAF. |
| Johnson City, TN | Johnson City, TN |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3191 / MACR 3191, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database