Donald Eldred Wollard
Military ROLL OF HONOURShot 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
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- 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
Places
- Site type: Airfield
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 |
Revisions
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
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.
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