George Baxter Walker
Military ROLL OF HONOURAssigned to 369BS, 306BG, 8AF USAAF. Dick Wong crew. Failed to Return (FTR) Wilhelmshaven mission 3-Feb-44 in B-17 42-31056; crew baled out due to runaway engine. Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 2494
Shot on 29-Apr-44 after being recaptured after escaping two days earlier from Stalag Luft VI. Grave was never found.
Awards: BS, AM (OLC), PH.
Connections
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 369th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-745990
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group
Missions
- Date: 3 February 1944
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft VI, Heydekrug
![A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group wave to Picture Post Girls in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24471) nicknamed "Four of a Kind" at Thurleigh in December 1942. Image stamped on reverse: '"Picture Post" [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 11 Dec 1942.' [stamp], '238038.' [Censor no.] Handwritten in censor's blue pencil on reverse: 'American Flying Fortress crew are introduced to the girls they will meet at Picture Post Xmas Party.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379028.jpg.webp?itok=6Gc6iR0j)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Harris, Rutherford County, NC | 22 September 1918 | Son of Emmett Lee and Mrs Ollie Jean [Hawkins] Walker. |
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Enlisted |
Fort Oglethorpe GA | 9 October 1941 | Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Macikai, Lithuania | 18 February 1944 - 27 April 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft VI. Arrived 18-Feb-44 from Dulag Luft. |
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Other Escaped POW camp |
Macikai, Lithuania | 27 April 1944 - 29 April 1944 | Escaped from Stalag Luft VI. On the run for two days. |
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Died |
Macikai, Lithuania | 29 April 1944 | Shot on 29-Apr-44 after being recaptured after escaping two days earlier from Stalag Luft VI. |
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Buried |
Netherlands American Cemetery | Tablets of the Missing Netherlands American Cemetery Magratten, Netherlands | |
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Based Killed in Action (KIA) |
Thurleigh | 3 February 1944 | Assigned to 369BS, 306BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2494 / MACR 2494, 8th AF Losses, First Over Germany pg. 200,
href="http://www.wwiimemorial.com/registry/mia/search/pframe.asp?HonoreeID=67…">http://www.wwiimemorial.com/registry/mia/search/pframe.asp?HonoreeID=67…;, / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database