Harland James Hendrix
Military
Top row, left to right: Hendrix, Gates, Reeser, Norton, Gross.
Bottom row , left to right. James Bradley, Wiggins, Scott, Cole (Cole was pilot that went down with plane when they were shot down over France, Jan 1944 James M Bradley
Added connections to airmen's records.
Object Number - UPL 21951 - James M Bradley (Lower right, front row) and crew. 8th AF, 96th Bomb Group, 339th Squadron, England 1943. Top row, left to right: Hendrix, Gates,...
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-30665 'Hunyak'. Prisoner of War (POW).
Connections
See how this entry relates to other items in the archive by exploring the connections below.
Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18067993 at enlistment, then O-726116
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19038435 at enlistment, then O-421049
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 6394292
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13012941
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13153161
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hunyak
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 4 January 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Station 138
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Born |
18 March 1923 | Woolco, Oklahoma | |
|
Enlisted |
27 August 1942 | March Field, Riverside, California | |
|
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
5 January 1944 | Interned at Stalag XVIIB in Braunau, near Krems, Austria. NARA WWII POW records : "Returned to Military Control 25 May 1945." | |
|
Died |
6 October 2007 | Shawnee, Oklahoma | |
| San Bernardino County, California | |||
|
Buried |
Resthaven Memorial Park, Shawnee, Oklahoma |
Revisions
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2014 / MACR 2014; Snetterton Falcons pg 97 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database