Arthur Bird

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

3Shot down 5 April 1943 in B-17 #4229660. Pilot Ross was wounded . He gave the bale out order near Erla Works at Antwerp after losing an engine and flight controls and with damage to the left wing. The plane crashed 12 miles north of Antwerp. Prisoner of War (POW) in Stalag 3 moved to 49-11 Nuremberg. . Killed in Action (KIA). MACR spells last name as 'BYRD'



Purple Heart

Connections

See how this entry relates to other items in the archive by exploring the connections below.

Units served with

Official insignia of the 306th Bomb Group, approved 6 January 1943, and updated 2 October 1951.

306th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Events

Event Location Date Description

Died

5 April 1943

Born

Pennsylvania

Buried

Revisions

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor/First Over Germany/MACR for April 5, 1943,Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey p. 100, First Over Germany by Russell Strong pp 82.