Claude V Toyek

Military

Shot down 15 May 1943 in B-17 #4229677 'Battlin B. ' Plane crashed into North Sea. Prisoner of War (POW) imprisoned at Stalag 7A Moosburg and moved to work camps with the last 48-11 near Munich. He flew on the Alden Mann crew.



POW, PH

52 years later at March AFB CA - thanks to the efforts of the co-pilot's widow -he got his Purple Heart.

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Units served with

Official insignia of the 306th Bomb Group, approved 6 January 1943, and updated 2 October 1951.

306th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-29677

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Battlin b
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Wisconsin

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

15 May 1943

Revisions

Date
ContributorHelen
Changes
Sources

306th Echoes Oct '95

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

306th BG Association Directory, 1 September 1999 Edition; Roll of Honor, MACR 16059 Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I p. 121 by Bishop and Hey, First over Germany pp. 114-5 by Russell Strong , NARA POW database / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 16060 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database