Edward Wallach
MilitaryShot down by fighters and flak and crashed E of Berlin on a mission to the ball bearing works at Erkner-Berlin on 6 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-38136. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
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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-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania
Events
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Tychowo, Poland | 6 March 1944 | Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow (formerly Heydekrug) Pomerania, Prussia (moved to Wobbelin Bei Ludwigslust) (To Usedom Bei Savenmunde) 54-16 |
Revisions
Added POW Camp info to the POW event from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Added an association to Stalag Luft 4 per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2743 / MACR 2743, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces,
href="http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=2948">http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=2948> / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database