Harold E Bonney Jr

Military

Shot down by fighters using rockets and crashed near Bad Hersfeld, GR on a mission to Gotha, GR on 24 Feb 1944 in B-24H #42-7515 'Green Gremlin', Prisoner of War (POW).



POW

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51681) of the 453rd Bomb Group flies in formation with a fellow Liberator of the 453rd and and a pathfinder Liberator of the 445th Bomb Group. Image via Alan Rowsell.

445th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-7515

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Green Gremlin
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 701st Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany 24 February 1944 Stalag Luft 1 Barth-Vogelsang Prussia 54-12

Revisions

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Contributorjmoore43
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Added POW camp info to the POW event and a S/N from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).

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Contributorjmoore43
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Merged "Summary biography" from a Duplicate person that was then deleted.

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Contributorjmoore43
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Corrected the name by moving "Jr" from the surname field to the suffix field and moving the last name from the middle name field to the surname field.

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ContributorAAM
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MACR 2550 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database