Edward W Danecki
Military
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Object Number - UPL 52110
Edward Danecki served as a tail gunner with the 448th Bomb Group, out of Seething, as part of crew 7178.
On March 25, 1945, he was shot-down aboard B-24 Liberator "Do Bunny", serial number 42-95185. The entire crew survived. After interrogation and solitary confinement for four days at Penneberg, Germany, he became POW 7929 at Stalag Luft I near Barth, Germany, for the war's duration.
The aircraft itself came to rest in a plowed-up farm field near Soltau, Germany. Several photos of the emergency-landing site from March 1945 were printed 51 years after the event from archive photos of the local Soltau newspaper on October 10, 1996.
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 448th Bomb Group
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Milwaukee, WI, USA | 14 October 1924 - 20 March 1995 | Died at Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Wood, WI. Buried at Wood National Cemetary in Wood, WI. |
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Prisoner of war Crashed |
Soltau, Germany | 25 March 1945 - 1 May 1945 | POW #7929 Stalag Luft 1; Barth, Germany. The camp was liberated on 1 May 1945 by the Russians. |
Revisions
Information provided by Edward W. Danecki Sr. daughter, Helen Danecki Wiklin.
Brought in information from a duplicate record for Edward Danecki. Source:
MACR 13549 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
Also added information sent to the museum by Edward W Danecki's son, Edward W Danecki Jr.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 13549
