Charles B Black

Military

Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Mainz on 5 Apr 45 in B-17 'Agony Wagon' #446617

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Units served with

Five men in Air Force uniforms posed in front of a building. Three are standing and two kneeling. The three men standing are wearing dark bomber-style jackets and one man is holding two fingers up behind the head of another man.

332nd Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

94th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

44-6617

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Agony Wagon, Southern Comfort, Whiskey Wagon
Unit: 94th Bomb Group 332nd Bomb Squadron

Places

Bury St Edmunds

Site type: Airfield
Known as: Rougham

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Knox, Pennsylvania, USA
Other Prisoner of War (POW)	Germany	5 April 1945

Event

Location

Date

Description

Born

Knox, Pennsylvania, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany

5 April 1945

Revisions

Date27 Sep 2014 18:05:26

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 13847 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database