Frank Louis Caruso

Military

Assigned to 547BS, 384BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down by fighters and crashed at Bad Bibra on 29-Jul-44 in B-17 ?? Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 4950





Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 384th Bomb Group.

384th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-38013

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Nevada Avenger
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron

43-37870

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron

Places

Dulag Luft 12

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12

Stalag Luft IV

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Pittsburgh, PA 21 July 1921

Enlisted

22 October 1942 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Other

Baled out POW

Bad Bibra, Germany 29 July 1944 Shot down by fighters and crashed at Bad Bibra on 29-Jul-44 in B-17 ?? Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 4950

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Tychowo, Poland 29 July 1944 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV.

Based

Killed in Action (KIA)

Grafton Underwood 29 July 1944 Assigned to 547BS, 384BG, 8AF USAAF.
San Francisco, CA

Revisions

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Sources

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7818 / MACR 7818, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=… / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database