Helmuth V Roeder
MilitaryShot down 20 December 1942 in B-17 41-24495 'Rose O'Day' while serving as Waist Gunner. Prisoner of War (POW). Completed 7 missions. He flew on John McKee crew.
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Rose O Day
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 20 December 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag 17b, Krems an der Donau, Austria
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Fayette County, Texas | 11 December 1916 | |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Krems an der Donau, Austria | 20 December 1942 - 14 June 1945 | Held at Stalag 17B, Braunau-Gneikendorf, near Krems, Austria. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 14-Jun-45. |
Died |
19 January 2008 | ||
Buried |
Weimar, Texas |
Revisions
Added an association to Stalag 17B per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2014. Correction to service and crew position per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.
Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2014. Added crew position to biography per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; Added POW event and SN pre National Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database; made connections to Place, Aircraft and Mission within existing website data.
306th BG Association Directory, 1 September 1999 Edition; Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Hey and Bishop p.55, First Over Germany pg. 56, NARA,
href="http://www.306bg.org/PDFs/jan2009Mweb.pdf">http://www.306bg.org/PDFs/jan2009Mweb.pdf>,
href="http://www.coloradocountyhistory.org/obits/r/rid-ry.htm">http://www.coloradocountyhistory.org/obits/r/rid-ry.htm>, / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia