Harold E Mapes

Military

Prisoner of War (POW) Hit by flak and had mid air collision with his own crew that he did not fly with that day, because he had volunteered to fill in with another crew, as his own plane(Jeanne) was not scheduled to fly that day, but it ended up doing that anyway and crashed near Chartres on 8/1/44 , Mapes was on B-17 Stormy Weather #4239873



POW

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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

Aircraft

42-39873

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Stormy Weather
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Elmhurst, New York 18 November 1923

Died

21 September 2000

Buried

Glen Rock, New Jersey

Other

Interned (INT)

France 1 August 1944

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7824 / MACR 7824, http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=3021 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database