Robert Douglas Teran
MilitaryCo-Pilot Robert Teran was captured after the crash of B-17 44-6004 near Merseburg, Germany on 24 August 1944. Prisoner of War (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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16056608 at enlistment, then O-758530
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31280258
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Ronny Boy
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 24 August 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
28 May 1922 | Blanco, San Juan County, New Mexico | |
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Enlisted |
19 September 1942 | in the Air Corps at Pueblo, Colorado | |
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Other Bailed out |
24 August 1944 | over Merseburg, Germany from B-17 44-6004. Landed near Burgstaden and was immediately captured | |
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Other Prisoner of War |
24 August 1944 | Interned at Stalag Luft 3 in Sagan, Poland; force-marched from there at the end of January 1945. Liberated at Stalag 7A in Moosburg, Germany by US troops 29 April 1945. NARA WWII POW database : “Returned to Military Control 20 February 1946.” | |
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Died |
26 September 2009 | in Sandy, Utah | |
| Aztec, San Juan County, New Mexico | |||
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Buried |
Robert Teran rests at the Sandy City Cemetery, Sandy, Utah |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 8284; 379th Bombardment Group Anthology, pg 318