Floyd Ray Aaron | American Air Museum in Britain

Richard S. Hosman Crew 398th BG - 601st BS Standing Left to Right: Richard S. Hosman (P), Roland D. Mundhenke (CP), Donald J. Coffee (N), Walter P. James (B) Kneeling Left to Right: Floyd R. Aaron (FE), Jerauld N. Clements (R/O), William H. Brown (WG), Frederick W. Hinze (WG), Theodore P. Blank (TG), Leon R. Kershaw (BTG) B-17G-60-BO #42-102854 "Arkansas Rambler" 222nd CCTS - Ardmore, OK

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Missing in Action (MIA) 13 April 1945 Neugmunster, Germany.

Bombs from one of our planes in the formation exploded in mid-air after release and damaged this aircraft.

Service

Emil Martineck

Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
Shot down 13 April 1945 in B-17 #4339184. Prisoner of War (POW). POW

398th Bomb Group

Group
The 398th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire on strategic bombing raids over Germany. The Group switched focus in the days before D-Day, when they targeted enemy positions on the Cherbourg peninsula. When the Allies...
601st Bomb Squadron

Squadron

43-39184

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Lincoln 30/12/44; Dow Fd 10/1/45; Assigned 601BS/398BG [3O-U] Nuthampstead 27/2/45; (22m) Missing in Action Neumunster 13/4/45 with Emil Martinek, Navigator: Roger Campbell, Radio Operator: Alf Cason, Ball turret gunner: Francis Gardippe,...

Nuthampstead

Military site : airfield
Built during 1942-43, Nuthampstead was the nearest Eighth Air Force heavy bomber base to London. It had three concrete runways, 50 loop hardstandings and two dispersed T2 hangars. It was first occupied from September 1943 to April 1944 by the 55th...

Event	Location	Date
Born	Missouri, USA	21 April 1924
Lived in	Mississippi County, AR, USA	1943
Enlisted	Little Rock, AR, USA	18 May 1943
Killed in Action (KIA)	23843 Bad Oldesloe, Germany	13 April 1945
RDX bomb mishap. Helped Co-Pilot Ted Kline trying to hold the a/c so the wounded pilot could bail out, neither was able to get out of AC.
Buried	Leachville, AR 72438, USA	1949
Leachville Cemetery Leachville Mississippi County Arkansas, USA

Date	Contributor	Update
11 July 2020 16:46:04	Hotelie1970	Changes to awards
Sources
General Order 594 from Headquarters 1st Bombardment Division, Office of the Commanding General, by Command of Brigadier General Turner, dated 7 December 1944.
Date	Contributor	Update
12 September 2016 16:11:47	Lucy May	Changes to biography
Sources
Brought in information from duplicate record. Source: 398th History / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
Date	Contributor	Update
17 June 2016 02:17:04	466thHistorian	Changes to person associations
Sources
http://398th.org/PDF/History/MACRs/MACR_14176_398th_601st_19450413_Marti...
Date	Contributor	Update
17 June 2016 02:15:37	466thHistorian	Changes to middlename, highest rank, role, events, place associations, mission associations and media associations
Sources
http://398th.org/PDF/History/MACRs/MACR_14176_398th_601st_19450413_Marti...
Date	Contributor	Update
21 November 2014 12:55:46	Deemax	Changes to service number
Sources
Ancestry.com. U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: United States. Army. Quartermaster General’s Office. Rosters of World War II Dead (all services). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army.
Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:09:40	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
MACR 14176 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database