Edwin Pierce Fulkerson
MilitaryIWM, Roger Freeman Collection
B-17G #42-31166 'Miss Billie Jr' lost two engines after takeoff as the spare for an operational mission on 24 Mar 1944 and was forced to make a wheels up emergency landing in a field W of Nuthampstead. RTD. Shot down 13 April 1944 in B-17 #4231048. Prisoner of War (POW).
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 13 April 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Grafton Undermud
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Enlisted |
Louisville, KY, USA | 17 February 1943 | Residence: Hardin County, Kentucky. Private, Branch Immaterial |
Other Assigned |
26 February 1944 | Assigned to the 384th Bomb Group, 545th Bomb Squadron on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #38 dated 26 February 1944, Max, Jean Miller Crew. Seven combat missions. | |
Other Prisoner of War |
Krems an der Donau, Austria | 13 April 1944 | POW Camp: Stalag 17B Braunau Gneikendorf Near Krems Austria 48-15 |
Died |
Elizabethtown, KY, USA | 1 May 2015 | Burial: Sonora Cemetery, Sonora, Kentucky. |
Born |
Millerstown, KY 42726, USA |
Revisions
Brought in information from duplicate record. Sources:
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3866 / MACR 3866, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=f... / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
AAIR 44-03-24-524 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database