Bruce Ensor Bean

Military

Assigned to 755BS, 458BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Aschersleben in B-24 42-95008; Shot down by fighters and crashed near Papenburg on 29-Jun-44 Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7086



Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16009951 / O-743444
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Able Mabel
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron

Places

  • 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

Born

Cookville, Tennessee 17 September 1922 Son of Elijah Landon and Marsha Estella 'Essie' [Jaquess] Bean.

Enlisted

25 March 1943

Other

Baled out POW

Papenburg, Germany 29 June 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Aschersleben in B-24 42-95008; Shot down by fighters and crashed near Papenburg on 29-Jun-44 POW MACR 7086

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Tychowo, Poland 29 June 1944 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV.

Other

Discharged USAAF

21 November 1945 Honourable discharge.

Died

Frisco, TX 27 September 2007

Buried

Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery, Dallas, TX 30 September 2007 Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery Dallas, TX

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7086 & Page 272 of the book LIBERAORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010