Adolph Komer
Military
466th BG 786th BS
Code: U8-A 466th Bomb Group collection
466th BG Historian
Object Number - UPL 6387 - B-24H-15-FO #42-52570 "Sack Happy" 466th BG 786th BS Code: U8-A
Shot down 29 May 1944 in B-24 #4252570 'Sack Happy. ' Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
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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: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16156479
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: T-123019
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Navigator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Sack Happy
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 29 May 1944
![A B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Ruth L", flown by Lieutenant NL Young, of the 96th Bomb Group flies through a cascade of bombs released by another Fortress over Oranienburg, Germany. Strike camera photo. Handwritten caption on reverse: '22/3/44. Looks like JW code - 92BG? [sic]Supposedly Bremen raid but bombs look like M47.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-408680.jpg.webp?itok=47P7nfd_)
- Date: 22 March 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Detroit, Michigan, USA | 20 April 1921 | |
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Buried |
Birmingham, MI, USA | 28 February 1993 | Clover Hill Park Cemetery Birmingham, Oakland County, Michigan, USA Plot Section 4 Lot CG Space 10 |
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Died |
Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA | 25 February 2001 | ADOLPH KOMER, 79, of Bloomfield Hills, died Feb. 25, 2001. A builder and developer, he was the owner of Komer Companies. Twenty-four years ago, he became a bar mitzvah with his son at Yeshiva Beth Yehudah. Mr. Komer helped initiate the city of Detroit tax abatements to bring development to downtown Detroit, developed and built Franklin Park Towers in Southfield -- 1172 units -- which was the largest single phase HUD complex in the U.S. He was a captain in the Army Air Corps during World War II, a national gunnery champion, an advanced flight instructor, a POW with two Purple Hearts and a B-24 squadron commander. He built many thousands of homes in metro Detroit and, in 1953, he built the first shopping center -- Eastgate Shopping Center -- with the largest store on one floor in the U.S., Federals. He was a leader in developing senior citizen high-rises, River Tower Apartments on the riverfront and was a partner with Max Fisher, Al Taubman and Henry Ford in the development of riverfront apartments next to Cobo Hall. |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Germany | 29 May 1944 | |
| Detroit, MI, USA | 403 Buena Vista | ||
| Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304, USA |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5226 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database