Robert C Pingel

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media-36667.jpeg UPL 36667 Sgt Abelardo L Rodriguez, Radio Operator/Gunner on B17 42-31696 381st Bomb Group, crashed on February 22ns 1944 at Sandebeck, 25 miles SE of Bielefeld, Germany

Michel Beckers WW2CRASHSITERESERACH

Object Number - UPL 36667 - Sgt Abelardo L Rodriguez, Radio Operator/Gunner on B17 42-31696 381st Bomb Group, crashed on February 22ns 1944 at Sandebeck, 25 miles SE of...

Crippled by fighters the crew baled out and B-17G #42-31696 crashed near Bielefeld, GR on 22 Feb 1944 on a mission to Oscherleben, GR. Prisoner of War (POW).



POW

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Units served with

The insignia of the 381st Bomb Group.

381st Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-31696

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Logansport, Indiana, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany 22 February 1944

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2932 / MACR 2932, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces, www.381st.org/UnitHistory/Data/Roster.aspx / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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Object number: UPL 36667 - Sgt Abelardo L Rodriguez, Radio Operator/Gunner on...