Donald Eldred Wollard

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-55981.jpeg UPL 55981 Don E. Wollard draft registration

Object Number - UPL 55981 - Don E. Wollard draft registration

Shot down by 20mm shells from Me109's on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8-Mar-44, B-17 42-30340 'Screamin Red Ass' crashed W of Magdeburg, GR. Killed in Action (KIA).



2nd Lieutenant Don E. Wollard was born 17-May-18. His next of kin were his mother, Kate Wollard, and his sister, Eudora Wollard. He was from Lamar, Colorado.

On 8-Mar-44, he was the Co-pilot of B-17 42-30340 “Screamin’ Red Ass", of the 388th Bomb Group, 563rd Bomb Squadron, when it went down over Neu-Ummendorf, Germany.

He is buried in Fairmont Cemetery in Lamar.



Awards: PH.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 388th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32003112 / O-748141
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Dry Run, Screamin Red Ass
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Hardin, MO 17 May 1918 Son of Jewell C. and Kate H. Wollard. Sister to Eudora.

Enlisted

3 March 1941

Died

West of Magdeburg, Germany 8 March 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) ? in B-17 42-30340 “Screamin’ Red Ass” 8-Mar-44; Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 3079

Buried

Fairmount Cemetery Lamar, Prowers County, CO Re-Interred Fairmount Cemetery Lamar, Prowers County, Colorado

Based

Killed in Action (KIA)

Knettishall 8 March 1944 Assigned to 563BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF.
Lamar, CO

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Transferred information from duplicate record.

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.388bg.info/Personnel.html

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IDPF and/or crash report researched by Bill Beigel. IDPF donated to American Air Museum by Bill Beigel. For more information about this flyer, you may contact http://ww2research.com.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3079 / MACR 3079, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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