Edmund J Kauffman Jr

Military

Estimate 21 missions including 2 on D-Day with 96th BG as lead radar navigator (Mickey Operator). We dropped our bombs on beach in support of Gen. Dempsey's British 2nd Army. Shot down on mission to oil refinery on 28 July 1944 (Leipzig) in AC 42-97555. We went down west of target. Prisoner of War (POW) to 7 May 1945. Flown to Rheims, France. Was there on 8 May 1945, V-E Day.



AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster

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Units served with

The insignia of the 96th Bomb Group.

96th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

Two pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortresses, (MZ-F, serial number 42-97555) and (MZ-T, serial number 42-97627), of the 96th Bomb Group. Printed caption on reverse: '59089 A.C. PFF planes such as these flying high above German targets were able to see covered objectives thousands of feet below mirrored as small clusters of light in the screen of the Mickey instrument which they caried. The revolving micro-wave antenna which sends out and picks up impulses is housed in the covered "blister" in back of the bomb ba

42-97555

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Island F For Fox
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Coatesville, Pennsylvania 12 June 1915

Other

Prisoner of War

28 July 1944 - 7 May 1945

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self, 100th Bomb Group Foundation Directory, 2000 - 2001/MACR 7880