Charles William Hacic

Military

Shot down by fighters and crashed near Kemme, 10km Northeast of Hildesheim (SE of Hannover), Germany, on return from a mission to Brunswick on 10 February 1944 in B-17G #42-31338 'Hard To Get'. Prisoner of War (POW).

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Russell Charles Moss

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 728th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35563587
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

John Lewis Nightingale

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 728th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16079577 at enlistment, then O-809695
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Robert Rylance Nixon

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 728th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-686920
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Kenneth Dewey Smith

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 728th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-804747
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

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Event Location Date Description

Born

13 September 1920 Tyrone, Blair County, Pennsylvania

Enlisted

14 July 1942 Buffalo, New York

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

10 February 1944 Interned at Stalag Luft 4 Gross Tychow/Tychowo, Poland. Returned to Military Control 24 May 1945.

Died

17 January 1979 Hamburg, New York
Lackawanna, Erie County, New York

Buried

Charles Hacic rests at the Lakeside Memorial Park Cemetery, Hamburg, New York

Revisions

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MACR 2540
NARA WWII Enlistment records
WWII Draft Card
NARA WWII POW records
Veterans Affairs BIRLS death File

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2540 / MACR 2540, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database