8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Walter James Collyer Jr
Military
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Flying Fortress B-17G 42-102700 "I'll Get By" 412th BS, 95th BG, 8AF USAAF. Photo includes; Oscar Walrod, Frank Sohm, Donald Phillips, Barney Lipkin, Jasper Kaylor, Robert Hill, Raymond Dallas, Walter Collyer, Elmer Bockman, and Robert Baber.
Assigned to 412BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. Tail Gunner B-17 "I'll Get By" 42-102700, Shot down by flak and crashed near Lisieux on 2-Aug-44, Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 7701
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Service
Units served with
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95th Bomb Group
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August... -
412th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-102700 "I'll Get By"
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 26/3/44; Hunter 16/4/44; Dow Fd 3/5/44; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-Z] Horham 4/5/44; 22m, Missing in Action Paris 2/8/44 with Capt Bob Baber, Co-pilot: Jasper Kaylor, Navigator: Ray Dallas, Bombardier: Frank Sohm, Flight engineer/top...
Missions
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2 August 1944
Associated Place
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Horham
Military site : airfield
Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group.... -
Stalag Luft IV
Other location
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Dulag Luft 12
Other location
Events
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| Born | Brooklyn, New York, USA | 19 September 1925 |
| Lived in | Brooklyn, NY, USA | 1940 |
| Based | Horham | 1944 – 2 August 1944 |
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Assigned to 412BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Prisoner of War (POW) | Tychowo, Poland | 2 August 1944 – May 1945 |
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Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV. |
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| Shot down | 14100 Lisieux, France | 2 August 1944 |
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Shot down by flak and crashed near Lisieux on 2-Aug-44, Prisoner of War (POW). |
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| Died | 16 January 2001 | |
| Buried | Rocky Branch Cemetery, Rocky Branch, Union Parish, LA | 19 January 2001 |
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Rocky Branch Cemetery |
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Revisions
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| 04 November 2020 22:18:51 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, biography, awards, events and place associations |
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18954817/walter-james-collyer |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 14 October 2020 20:59:59 | jmoore43 | Changes to nickname |
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Removed the "Possible DUPLICATE" flag in the Nickname field and then removed the duplicate person. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 14 October 2020 20:56:33 | jmoore43 | Changes to events and place associations |
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Removed the "Possible DUPLICATE" flag in the Nickname field and then removed the duplicate person. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 13 October 2020 00:46:12 | jmoore43 | Changes to nickname |
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Flagged as a "Possible DUPLICATE" in the Nickname field so an Admin can check out this person. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 20 December 2015 12:30:48 | Al_Skiff | Changes to service number |
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AAM DB Entry. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 20 December 2015 12:13:11 | Al_Skiff | Changes to surname, middlename, suffix, biography, awards, events, unit associations, place associations, mission associations and media associations |
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AAM DB Entry. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:26:57 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 7701 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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