Assigned to 323BS, 91BG, 8AF USAAF. Ditched in channel 6-Sep-43 in B-17 41-24497 'Mizpah II'. Returned to base. Failed to Return (FTR) Anklam, Germany. Shot down 9-Oct-43 in B-17 42-29740. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 896.
Awards: AM, POW, WWII Victory, EAME, AF Commendation.
Service
People
-
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Assigned to 323BS, 91BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Anklam, Germany. Shot down 9-Oct-43 in B-17 42-29740. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 896.
...
-
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 6 September 1943 in B-17 #41-24497 'Mizpah II', Returned to base.
Show more
Units served with
-
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
...
-
Group
The 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated at Harding Field, Louisiana on 15-April-1942 and went to MacDill Field, Florida for the first phase of training from 16-May-1942 to 25-June-1942. The Group was then assigned to 2nd Air Force at Walla...
-
Aircraft
-
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered ? ?; with Jim Dale force landed Berry Fd, Nashville, TN 15/8/42; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-P] Westover 16/8/42; Bassingbourn 30/9/42; Missing in Action on the aircraft's 26th mission, to Stuttgart on 6 September 1943 with Pilot William R. Cox;...
-
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 11/2/43; Rapid City 22/2/43 - original group ship with 95th BG; Kearney 12/3/43; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-R] RAF Alconbury; force landed Alconbury after sustaining NBD with Don Eastling 19/5/43; transferred to 337BS/96BG [AW-G]...
Associated Place
-
Military site : airfield
Now home to a museum all about the aifield and its USAAF residents (http://www.towermuseumbassingbourn.co.uk/) , Bassingbourn opened in 1938 as part of the RAF's pre-war expansion programme. The RAF continued to use it until late in 1942 when its long...
-
Events
Event |
Location |
Date |
Born |
Assumption, Illinois |
13 November 1922 |
Son of Charles Leo and Vallie [Purdy] Richardson.
|
Based |
Bassingbourn |
1943 – 9 October 1943 |
Assigned to 323BS, 91BG, 8AF USAAF.
|
Survived ditching |
English Channel |
6 September 1943 |
Ditched in channel 6-Sep-43 in B-17 41-24497 'Mizpah II'. Returned to base.
|
Shot down POW |
Denmark |
9 October 1943 |
Failed to Return (FTR) Anklam, Germany. Shot down 9-Oct-43 in B-17 42-29740. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 896.
|
Prisoner of War (POW) |
Barth, Germany |
9 October 1943 – May 1945 |
Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I.
|
Died |
San Antonio, TX, USA |
29 April 2017 |
Buried |
1520 Harry Wurzbach Rd, San Antonio, TX 78209, USA |
May 2017 |
Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery
San Antonio
Bexar County, TX
|