Alvin T Birkelbach

Military

Shot down 5 October 1944 in B-17 #4337972 'Ula Lame. ' Prisoner of War (POW).



POW

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Units served with

A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Tin Lizzy / Ula Lume
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 833rd Bomb Squadron 349th Bomb Squadron 100th Bomb Group

Events

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Born

Humble, Texas, USA

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 9528 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database