Raymond Eugene Domergue

Military

Assigned to 526BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Pas de Calais in B-17 42-97485 26-Mar-44; Hit by flak, crashed St-Marie-Cappel, Nth of Hazebrouck, 7 miles NE of St Omer, France; Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 3592.

Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

379th Bomb Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

526th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

People

Stanley Leonard Bielawski

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 16029354 / O-735027
Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-97485

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Taletha Ann
Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Airmen and ground crew of the 448th Bomb Group carefully transfer a flak casualty through the waist gun window of a B-17 Flying Fortress. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-11-2-448)(26-3-44)(Flak Casualty).' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Col Patterson.'

8th Air Force 280

Date: 26 March 1944

Places

Molesworth

Site type: Airfield

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Bon Avo, Pennsylvania, USA	18 November 1919	Son of Albert and Jane Domergue.
Enlisted	Pittsburgh, PA	11 March 1942	Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Other Baled out POW	St-Marie-Cappel, France	26 March 1944	Failed to Return (FTR) Pas de Calais in B-17 42-97485 26-Mar-44; Hit by flak, crashed St-Marie-Cappel, France; POW MACR 3592.
Other Prisoner of War (POW)	Barth, Germany	26 March 1944	Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I.
Died	Pensacola, FL	9 January 1999
Buried	Sylvania Hills Memorial Park, Rochester, PA	11 January 1999	Sylvania Hills Memorial Park Rochester, Beaver County, PA
Based Prisoner of War (POW)	Molesworth	26 March 1944	Assigned to 526BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF.

Revisions

Date23 May 2019 10:04:26

ContributorAl_Skiff

Changes

Sources

https://www.fold3.com/image/661036427
https://www.fold3.com/image/138206702?rec=138206995
https://www.fold3.com/record/17066384-raymond-e-domergue
https://www.fold3.com/record/83770716-raymond-e-domergue
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85754436/raymond-eugene-domergue

Date27 Sep 2014 18:22:05

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3592 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / self, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces