Homer Edward Hymbaugh

Military
media-41101.jpeg UPL 41101 Kenneth Smith crew:

Rear: Cpl Roland Morin, S/Sgt Urbain H Granger, Cpl Charles F Foss, Cpl Homer E Hymbaugh, Cpl Edwin A Burkhardt, Cpl Robert T Trumpy.

Front: 2Lt Harry D Edmiston, 2Lt Ken B Smith, 2Lt Edward J Chojnowski, 2Lt Frank Hokr.

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Object Number - UPL 41101 - Kenneth Smith crew: Rear: Cpl Roland Morin, S/Sgt Urbain H Granger, Cpl Charles F Foss, Cpl Homer E Hymbaugh, Cpl Edwin A Burkhardt, Cpl Robert T...

Assigned to 764BS, 461BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Odertal oil refinery in B-24 42-51324; Mechanical issues forced A/C to drop out of formation, subsequently mauled by fighters, A/C abandoned. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 10683



Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME

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Units served with

A B-24 Liberator of the 461st Bomb Group, 15th Air Force drops supplies over a Prisoner of War camp in Austria, May 1945. Handwritten caption on reverse: '9 May 1945, Last 'combat' mission of 461st BG to British POW camp near Villack, Austria. #33 flown by Lt John Stegman- 765th BS.'

461st Bomb Group

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

People

Kenneth Butler Smith

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 461st Bomb Group 764th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 15108203 / O-825700
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-51324

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Tenmenbak / Paulette
  • Unit: 461st Bomb Group 764th Bomb Squadron

Places

Dulag Luft 12

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
Prisoners of war, including Colonel Hubert Zemke of the 479th Fighter Group at Stalag Luft I.

Stalag Luft I

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany

Torretta

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Cerignola #3

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Hopedale, IL 11 December 1920 Son of Ray Wesley and Jenny Mary [Jennings] Hymbaugh.

Enlisted

Peoria, IL 28 September 1942 Peoria, Illinois

Other

Baled out POW

Trencin, Czech 17 December 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Odertal oil refinery in B-24 42-51324; Downed by fighters, A/C abandoned. POW MACR 10683

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Barth, Germany 17 December 1944 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I.

Died

Pekin, IL 3 August 1990

Buried

Orendorff Cemetery Hopedale, Tazewell County, IL 7 August 1990 Orendorff Cemetery Hopedale, Tazewell County, Ill

Based

Torretta 17 December 1944 Assigned to 764BS, 461BG, 15AF USAAF.

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