Frederick Gordon Pynigar

Military

Assigned to 613BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down 28-May-44 in B-17 42-102581 'Lonesome Polecat'. Prisoner of War (POW).





Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

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

People

Paul Fredrick Scharff

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-803697
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-102581

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Lonesome Polecat
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron

Missions

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

Ansonia, CT 12 April 1917 Son of Frederick and Anne Pynigar.

Enlisted

Hartford, CT 21 July 1942 Hartford, Connecticut

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Tychowo, Poland 28 May 1944 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV.

Died

Milford, CT 7 August 2002

Buried

Riverside Cemetery Shelton, Fairfield County, CT 10 August 2002 Riverside Cemetery Shelton, Fairfield County, Connecticut

Based

Deenethorpe 28 May 1944 Assigned to 613BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5306 / MACR 5306,

href="http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=1192">http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=1192> / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database