Ed Oscar Seabourn

Military

media-37034.jpeg UPL 37034 Part of MACR 1555, records those captured and interrogated. 2Lt Charles Joseph Spear Navigator of B-17 42-29663, shows DOB 7th Aug 1918.

Associated people

Object Number - UPL 37034 - Part of MACR 1555, records those captured and interrogated. 2Lt Charles Joseph Spear Navigator of B-17 42-29663, shows DOB 7th Aug 1918.

Assigned to 364BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down 17-May-43 in B-17 42-29663. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 15555

Awards: AM, PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

305th Bomb Group

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

364th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

People

Donald Whitney Tuttle

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 305th Bomb Group 364th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 11033809 / O-791522
Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-29663

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Unit: 305th Bomb Group 364th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Ground crews of 305th Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortresses wait for their aircraft to return to Chelveston airbase after a raid on the 30 June 1943; a B-17 Flying Fortress is coming in to land. Passed for publication 30 Jun 1943. Printed caption on reverse: 'At A Fortress Station In Britain. From an American base in Britain the Flying Fortresses carry out operational activities which result in terrible blows against the German industrial war machine. This series of pictures shows scenes at a Flying Fortresse

Dulag Luft 12

Site type: Prisoner of war camp
Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12

Stalag XVII-B

Site type: Prisoner of war camp
Known as: Stalag 17b, Krems an der Donau, Austria

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Delaware County, OK	27 November 1922	Son of Joesph Delano and Leta Pauline [Mount] Seabourn.
Enlisted	Tulsa, OK	8 July 1942
Other Baled out POW	Lorient, France	17 May 1943	Shot down 17-May-43 in B-17 42-29663. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 15555
Other Prisoner of War (POW)	Krems an der Donau, Austria	17 May 1943	Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag XVIIb.
Other Discharged USAAF		24 October 1945	Honourable discharge.
Died	Hobbs, NM	27 September 2000
Based	Chelveston	17 May 1943	Assigned to 364BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF.
Buried	Prairie Haven Memorial Park, Hobbs, NM		Prairie Haven Memorial Park Hobbs, Lea County, NM Block 20 Tract 59 Lot 8

Revisions

Date18 Jan 2019 10:49:40

ContributorAl_Skiff

Changes

Sources

https://www.fold3.com/image/47349084
https://www.fold3.com/record/70958514-ed-o-seabourn
https://www.fold3.com/record/84815370-ed-o-seabourn
https://www.fold3.com/record/529527824-ed-seabourn-1922
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60071640/ed-oscar-seabourn

Date27 Sep 2014 18:08:04

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 15555 / MACR 15555; 8th AF News, March 2001 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database