Hubert Francis O'Neill
MilitaryBorn and raised in Lynn, Massachusetts, Hubert O’Neill graduated from Lynn English High School in 1942. Enlisting in the Air Corps in November of that year, he was sent overseas in 1943 and served as a Radio Operator/Gunner in the 92nd Bomb Group / 407th Bomb Squadron. Shot down on his second mission, over Osnabrück, Germany, 22 December 1943 on board B-17 #42-3184. Prisoner of War (POW). After his return to the United States in the summer of 1945, he started working for the federal government as an engineer technician. He worked at the Watertown Arsenal in Watertown, Massachusetts and the Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey until retiring in 1980, when he and his wife Mary Elizabeth moved to Yarmouth, Massachusetts from Sparta, New Jersey.
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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: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 10601061
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 39089357 and O-752500
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36015693 and O-687757
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32164122 and O-801644
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12098143 and O-748042
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: U.S.S.. Aliquippa
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 22 December 1943
Places
![A bomber crew of the 92nd Bomb Group return to Podington following a mission flying B-17 Flying Fortresses to Wittenberg. A B-17 Flying Fortress (NV-K, serial number 42-29994) is visible in the background. Image stamped on reverse: 'Passed for Publication 23 Feb 1945' [stamp]. ' News Chronicle Copyright Picture' [stamp]. Printed caption on reverse: 'Crew back from Wittenberg.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379172.jpg.webp?itok=G7D0FciD)
- Site type: Airfield
Events
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Born |
8 October 1924 | ||
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Enlisted |
16 November 1942 | as a Private in the Air Corps | |
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Other Captured |
22 December 1943 | near Itterbeck/Getelo, Germany a few hours after landing in parachute | |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
22 December 1943 | NARA WWII POW records : "POW at Stalag Luft 3 in Sagan / Zagan, Poland". Force-marched at the end of January 1945 from there to Stalag 7A in Moosburg, Germany. Liberated there by troops of Gen. George Patton on 29 April 1945. NARA WWII POW records : “Returned to military control 30 May 1945.” | |
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Died |
27 February 2004 | ||
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Revisions
Added " / " in the "Role/job" field as a separator to aid readability.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1711 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / self, MACR 1711