Don H Eldredge

Military

Shot down 18 November 1942 in B-17 #41-24474 'Floozy'. Plane crashed into Channel. Prisoner of War (POW) in Stalag Luft III for 26 months and Moosburg for 3 months.



POW

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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

Places

Stalag Luft III

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany

Stalag VII-A

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag 7a, Moosburg

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Chicago, Illinois 24 May 1919

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Zagan, Poland 18 November 1942 Interned in POW Camp: Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) 49-11

Revisions

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Added an association to "Stalag VII-A" per info in the "Summary biography" .

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Updated S/N and Added a POW event per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Added an association to Stalag Luft 3 per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).

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Added a "-" to the A/C tail # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.

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306th BG Association Directory, 1 September 1999 Edition; Roll of Honor; self, Losses of the 8th and 9th Air Forces Volume I by Bishop and Hey p. 46-47, MACR 16448. / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia