Willard Charles Bader
MilitaryAssigned to 731st BS, 452BG, 8AF USAAF. 9 x combat missions. Continuous attacks by fighters on the return from a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8-Mar-44, forced B-17G 42-31354 to make a forced landing SE of Magdeburg. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 3191
Awards: AM, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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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: 452nd Bomb Group 731st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36107992 / O-747352
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lounge Lizard, Dixie Jane
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 452nd Bomb Group 731st Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 8 March 1944
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
New Brunswick, New Jersey | 5 August 1923 | Son of Margaret E Kirk. |
Enlisted |
Camden, NJ | 26 August 1942 | Camden, New Jersey |
Other Baled out POW |
SE of Magdeburg | 8 March 1944 | Continuous attacks by fighters on the return from a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8-Mar-44, forced B-17G 42-31354 to make a forced landing SE of Magdeburg. POW MACR 3191 |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Barth, Germany | 8 March 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I. Liberated by Russians. |
Died |
Indialantic, FL | 20 May 2005 | |
Based |
Deopham Green | 8 March 1944 | Assigned to 731st BS, 452BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self, MACR 3191, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces