Elbert P Moyer
Military
Waist Gunner
Bissonette/P.E. Brown Crews
388th BG - 561st BS
Object Number - UPL 45706 - SSGT Elbert P. Moyer Waist Gunner Bissonette/P.E. Brown Crews 388th BG - 561st BS
On a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, another B-17 from the 388th went out of control after being attacked by fighters and collided with B-17G 42-40054 which exploded and crashed SE of Emmen, Holland. Prisoner of War (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: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Bethlehem, PA | 2 January 1923 | |
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Enlisted |
Harrisburg, PA | 23 September 1942 | |
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Other POW |
7 March 1944 | ||
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Died |
Lancaster, PA | 24 September 2009 | Elbert Moyer, 86, of Lancaster, died Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at Lancaster General Hospital. He was the husband of the late Betty Jane (Newport) Moyer, who died in 1993. Born January 2, 1923 in Bethlehem, PA he was a son of the late Warren and Martha (Kluge) Moyer. Elbert served in the U.S. Army Air Force in WW II. He flew in the 388th Bomb Group in the first daylight raid on Berlin. After being shot down, he survived as a POW and was awarded 9 service medals including the Purple Heart. He was a Life Member of Millersville VFW. He was a general contractor and home builder in the Lancaster area. He is survived by 2 sons, Elbert P. Jr. and wife Cynthia, and Robert D., both of Lancaster; 2 daughters, Beverly A. of Lancaster and Bonnie Musser of Ephrata, 4 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. |
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Buried |
Millersville, PA | 30 September 2009 | Millersville Mennonite Cemetery Millersville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA |
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Other Shot Down/Captured/WIA |
Veenschapsweg, Schoonebeek, Netherlands | 6 March 1944 | Suffered burns that required skin grafts after he was repatriated |
| Lancaster, PA |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia '
/ MACR 3092 /
Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces
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Sources
MACR 3092 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
