Richard L Thayer
Military
Sgt Hubert Roughton, Left Waist Gunner/Assistant Engineer
Sgt Gerald Poplett, Top Turret Gunner, Engineer
SSgt Carl (Herbie) Blichmann, Ball Turret Gunner, Assistant Radio
Sgt John McLaughlin, Tail Gunner/Armourer
Kneeling L-R: First Lt. Robert M. Cook, Pilot
Second Lt Ronald J. Casey, Co-Pilot
Second Lt John Rowland, Bombadier/Chin Turret Gunner
Second Lt John Oswalt, Navigator/Nose Gunner
Not in Picture: Fremont Granade (Roughton's replacement)
George Silva, Radio
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Object Number - UPL 16504 - Standing L-R: Sgt Dick Thayer, Right Waist Gunner/Assistant Armourer Sgt Hubert Roughton, Left Waist Gunner/Assistant Engineer Sgt Gerald Poplett,...
Landed with battle damage from a mission to Frankfurt, GR on 20 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-38124 'Passionate Witch'. RTD. Direct hit by flak on a mission to Chateaudin airfield, FR on 28 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-32082 exploded, broke up, and crashed S of the target. 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
Aircraft
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
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Born |
Hope, Indiana, USA | ||
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Austria | 28 March 1944 | |
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Enlisted |
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Enlisted |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3488 / MACR 3488, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database