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Charles L. Duncan was pilot of "Judy E" - 42-30050, shot down by fighters over Dieppe, France 10 July 1943. Captured and made a Prisoner of War (POW).
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator
Oliver Chiesl was Navigator on pilot Charles L. Duncan's "Judy E" - 42-30050, shot down by fighters over Dieppe, France 10 July 1943. Captured and made a Prisoner of War (POW).
Military | Technical Sergeant | Engineer/Top Turret Gunner
Ernest De Los Santos was Engineer/Top Turret Gunner on pilot Charles L. Duncan's "Judy E" - 42-30050, shot down by fighters over Dieppe, France 10 July 1943. Captured and made a Prisoner of War (POW).
Military | Lieutenant | Bombardier
William Forbes Jr was Bombardier on pilot Charles L. Duncan's "Judy E" - 42-30050, shot down by fighters over Dieppe, France 10 July 1943. Captured and made a Prisoner of War (POW).
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner/Assistant Radio Operator
Gene Frank was Assistant Radio Operator/Gunner on pilot Charles L. Duncan's "Judy E" - 42-30050, shot down by fighters over Dieppe, France 10 July 1943. Captured and made a Prisoner of War (POW).
Military | Staff Sergeant | Assistant Engineer/Ball Turret Gunner
Bernard Hanover's middle initial is given as "E" in MACR 268 and in his NARA POW records, while his WW II Enlistment Records have "I", the correct one. This is confirmed in his 29 January 1946 Draft Registration Card. He was assistant engineer on pilot...
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 100th Bomb Group
Flew on 8 combat missions, 7 of them with pilot Mark E. Carnell. 8th Mission was a late replacement for John K. Beard, the regular radio operator on the Charles L. Duncan crew. Duncan's "Judy E" - 42-30050, was shot down by fighters over Dieppe, France...
Military | Sergeant | Armorer/Right Waist Gunner
Sgt Parrish Reynolds was waist gunner on pilot Charles L. Duncan's "Judy E" - 42-30050, shot down by fighters over Dieppe, France 10 July 1943. He was replacing Sgt Clifford R. Starkey - later shot down on 17 August 1943 on B-17 42-5867. Reynolds...
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot
Archibald Robertson was Co-Pilot on B-17 #42-30050 "Judy E", shot down 10 July 1943 on the mission to Le Bourget airfield near Paris. He managed to evade capture with the help of French and Belgian members of the Résistance. Fed, clothed, sheltered and...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner
William Whitley was Tail Gunner on pilot Charles L. Duncan's "Judy E" - 42-30050, shot down by fighters over Dieppe, France 10 July 1943. Captured and made a Prisoner of War (POW).
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 3/4/43; Kearney 15/4/43; Hamilton 28/4/43; Wendover 2/5/43; Hill 13/5/43; Wendover 17/2/43; Kearney 21/5/43; Dow Fd 27/2/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-X] Thorpe Abbotts 29/5/43; Missing in Action Le Bourget airfield 10 July 1943 with...
10 July 1943
German airfields at Caen, Abbeville, and Le Bourget at Paris, France are the primary targets for this mission. 112 B-17s form a combined force from 91BG; 92BG; 305BG; 306BG; 351BG and 381BG to bomb the German airfield (Carpiquet) at Caen, France. Cloud...
Military site : airfield
Home of the 'Bloody Hundredth’, a Bomb Group with a reputation for high casualty rates, Thorpe Abbotts was under USAAF control from June 1943 to the end of the war. Some of the airfield survives today, and the control tower houses the 100th Bomb Group...
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| Born | 13 May 1917 | |
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Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut, the son of Scotland-born Charles and Elizabeth (Kennedy) Duncan |
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| Lived in | 1941 | |
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Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut |
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| Enlisted | 17 December 1941 | |
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Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Bailed out | 10 July 1943 | |
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of B-17 42-30050 over NW France, south of Dieppe |
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| Prisoner of War | 10 July 1943 – May 1945 | |
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Captured after landing in parachute in Normandy. Interned at Stalag Luft 3 in Sagan/Zagan, Poland. NARA WWII POW database : "Interned at SL3; Returned to Military Control 24 July 1945." Most probably force-marched from SL3 to Stalag VIIA Moosburg, liberated 29 April 1945 by US forces. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 14 November 2019 13:58:51 | ED-BB | Changes to middlename, nickname, service number, biography, events, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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NARA WWII Enlistment records |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:05:51 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 268 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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