Giles Felker Kauffman Jr
Military
Photo courtesy of Eugene Spearman.
Object Number - UPL 20021 - 42-30043 SO-V, RUTHLESS, Ditched in the North Sea on return from a mission (#108) to Frankfurt, 4 October 1943. Photo courtesy of Eugene Spearman.
Shot down in B-17 #42-29870, 14 October 1943. Prisoner of War (POW), Missing Air Crew Report 1038. Earlier, on 4 October 1943 returning from a mission to Frankfurt, B-17 #42-30043 'Ruthless' ditched in The North Sea and rescued by HM drifter ‘Lord Keith’.
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: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32414218
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34261537
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Togglier, Enlisted Nose Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-676887
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38214909
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
Aircraft
Missions
![Three B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 94th Bomb Group are attacked by a Nazi Fighter aircraft during a mission. Printed caption on reverse of print: 'A-62641 USAF: Nazi fighter plane attacking Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses" during a bomb run over enemy installations somewhere in Europe, 10 September 1944. 100th[sic] Bomb Group, 3rd Bomb Division. U.S. Air Force Photo.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-408505.jpg.webp?itok=zJwHCUjh)
- Date: 14 October 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Grafton Undermud
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag 7a, Moosburg
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Lewiston, Pennsylvania | 25 February 1920 | |
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Other Assigned |
Grafton Underwood, Kettering, Northamptonshire NN14, UK | 14 September 1943 | Assigned to the 384th Bombardment Group, 547th Bombardment Squadron on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #96 dated 14 September 1943, as crew pilot. Six combat missions. |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Stalag-Gedenkplatz (Stalag VII A), Böhmerwaldstraße 21, 85368 Moosburg an der Isar, Germany | 14 October 1943 | POW Camp: Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria 48-12 (Work Camps 3324-46 Krumbachstrasse 48011, Work Camp 3368 Munich 48-11). |
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Died |
Fairfield, Ohio, USA | 12 November 1999 |
Revisions
Added a Died event per info " in the Ohio, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2018" at Ancestry.com.
Source: https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=5763&h=200278&…
Added a connection to Stalag 7A per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Added a "#" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" for clarity.
http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/person.php?PersonKey=2043
Consolidated information from duplicate files:
http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/81194
http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/81194
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1038, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs by Bishop and Hey p. 303, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=…