Arthur E Newell Jr

Military

After falling out of formation and then being attacked by fighters on the return from a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-31488 'Shade Ruff' crashed SE of Meppen, GR after the crew bailed out. Prisoner of War (POW).

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-31488

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Shade Ruff
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Arlington, Massachusetts, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany 8 March 1944 Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow (formerly Heydekrug) Pomerania, Prussia (moved to Wobbelin Bei Ludwigslust) (To Usedom Bei Savenmunde) 54-16

Revisions

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Added POW camp info to the POW event and a S/N from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).

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Copied "Summary biography" from a Duplicate person as part of a merge operation of dup people so the dup person can be deleted.

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Corrected the name by moving "Jr" from the surname field to the suffix field and moving the last name from the middle name field to the surname field.

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MACR 2911 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database