Irwin Eiring

Military

Assigned to 755BS, 458BG, 8AF USAAF. Ruark crew. Sand in for regular navigator. Failed to Return (FTR) Aschersleben in B-24 42-95008; Shot down by fighters and crashed near Papenburg on 29-Jun-44 Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7086



Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'

458th Bomb Group

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

People

Robert Harrison Hannaman

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16009951 / O-743444
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-95008

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Able Mabel
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron

Places

Dulag Luft 12

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12

Stalag VII-A

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag 7a, Moosburg

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

St Cloud, Wisconsin 27 July 1916 Son of Herman and Margaret [Vogds] Eiring.

Enlisted

Milwaukee, WI 6 November 1942 Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Moosburg, Bavaria 29 June 1944 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag VIIa.

Died

Fond du Lac, WI 28 January 2012

Buried

St Cloud Cemetery, St Cloud WI 31 January 2012 St Cloud Cemetery, St Cloud, Wisconsin

Based

Horsham St Faith 29 June 1944 Assigned to 755BS, 458BG, 8AF USAAF.

Other

Baled out POW

Papenburg, Germany Failed to Return (FTR) Aschersleben in B-24 42-95008; Shot down by fighters and crashed near Papenburg on 29-Jun-44 POW MACR 7086

Revisions

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https://www.fold3.com/record/84441184-irwin-eiring
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https://www.458bg.com/crewperkinson.htm
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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7086 & Page 275 of the book LIBERATORS OVER EUROPE by Mackay, Bailey & Scorza, D790G458