Robert M Paul
MilitaryThis is a picture of my father
On 4-Mar-43 in B-17F 41-24512 'Rose O' Day', 91BG/322BS while serving as Radio Operator the aircraft was repeatedly attacked by German fighters and seen to have the #2 engine on fire. The surviving crew, including TSGT Paul were ordered to bale out over the southern tip of Texel Island, Holland, but most came down in the sea and were lost. TSGT Paul was fortunate to come down on land and was captured as a Prisoner of War (POW). The aircraft crashed into North Sea just west of the southern tip of Texel Island, Holland.
POW
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Rose ODay
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 322nd Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 4 March 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Krems an der Donau, Austria | 4 March 1943 - 12 June 1945 | Held at Stalag 17B, Braunau-Gneikendorf (near Krems), Austria. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 12-Jun-45. |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 24-Jun-2015. Added Decoration and POW event per Nartional Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database; made connections to Place, Aircraft and Mission within existing website data; Added KIA event per MACR 3721; Edited Summay Biography with loss detail and converted dates to military-style signification per "Losses of the 8th & 9th AIr Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop and Hey, pp. 87-88, MACR 3721 The Ragged Irregulars of Bassingbourne by Havelaar p. 253