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42-30033 Nose Art, "Little America"
42-30033, 546th Bombardment Squadron, 384th Bombardment Group
MACR 1335
Shot down 1 December 1943 in B-17 #42-30033 'Little America. ' Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 1335
POW
Military | Major | Pilot, 547th Squadron Commander | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down 1 December 1943 in B-17 #42-30033 'Little America. ' Prisoner of War (POW).
POW Camp: Stalag Luft 1 Barth-Vogelsang Prussia 54-12
POW
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 384th Bomb Group
Assigned to the 384th BG on Gowen Field (Boise, Idaho) Special Orders #70 dated 11 March 1943, Francis J. Witt Crew.
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Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down 1 December 1943 in B-17 #4230033 'Little America. ' Evaded. 10/14/43 on return from Schweinfurt mission, B17#42-5852 'The Natural' ' crashed at Oxfordshire with crew baling out near RAF Oakley. 5 of the crew were injured with all returning.
Military | First Lieutenant | 1091 - Pilot, B-17 Co-Pilot, Pilot | 384th Bomb Group
Group
The 384th Bomb Group flew B-17s from Grafton Underwood, Northamptonshire, between May 1943 and June 1945. They were engaged in daylight bombing missions over Germany as part of the Allies' efforts to destroy the effectiveness of the Luftwaffe by...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 2/4/43; Sioux City 13/4/43; Kearney 4/5/43; Bangor 20/5/43; Assigned to the 547BS/384BG [S0-G] Grafton Underwood 24/5/43, then the 546BS [BK-G]; Missing in Action Leverkusen 1/12/43 with Maj Maurice Stanley Dillingham, Co-pilot:...
1 December 1943
This mission was directed at the industrial areas of Leverkusen and Solingen, Germany. The mission is composed of two elements. The first element is a combined force of 221 B-17s from 1st Bomb Division that included: 91BG (27); 92BG (18); 303BG (17);...
Military site : airfield
Grafton Underwood was built in 1941 by George Wimpey and Co. Ltd. It was the first airfield in England to receive an Eighth Air Force flying unit, when in May 1942 personnel of the 15th Bomb Squadron took up residence. As a satellite airfield for...
| Event | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Born | Cleveland, Ohio, USA | |
| Prisoner of War (POW) | Germany | 1 December 1943 – May 1945 |
| Died | Florida, USA | 21 December 2017 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 22 December 2017 13:29:43 | bombercommand | Changes to biography and events |
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Correspondence with Edmund's grandson. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 18 January 2015 00:05:54 | bombercommand | Changes to middlename, service number, highest rank, biography, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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384thbombgroup.com |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:08:10 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1335 / MACR 1335, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=g... / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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