Floyd Franklin Hartman
MilitaryFloyd Hartman was Navigator on board B-17#42-39791 "Fletcher's Castoria" which crashed on take-off on a non-operational flight 3 December 1943, with Pilot Martin Tashjian. He and the 8 other men on board Returned To Duty (RTD).
He was Navigator on B-17 Buffalo Gal #42-31537, shot down by fighters and crashed near Punschrau, Germany on 29 July 1944. 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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38338409
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Engineer / Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35683437
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32383566
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Bombardier / Togglier / Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19101831 at enlistment, then O-755534
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13038519 at enlistment, then O-755538
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 29 July 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Terrance Park, Ohio, USA | 8 February 1918 | Oologah, Rogers County, Oklahoma, United States |
Enlisted |
26 May 1942 | Tulsa, Oklahoma | |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Germany | 29 July 1944 | Interned at Stalag Luft 1, Barth, Germany. NARA WWII POW record : “Returned to Military Control 3 April 1946.”… |
Talala, Rogers County, Oklahoma (student at Northeastern State College) |
Revisions
MACR 7809
NARA WWII Enlistment records
WWII draft card
NARA WWII POW records
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7809 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database