Jack Atherton

Military

Shot down by flak and crashed at Gruenewald on 6/21/44 in B-17 #42-31496 Prisoner of War (POW)

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Units served with

401st Bomb Group

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

612th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-102393

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Diana Queen Of The Chase
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

42-31496

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Salvo Sadie
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

42-39993

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Hells Angels Out Of Chute 13, Grossly Inadequate
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

42-97811

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Slick Chick
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

Missions

428

Date: 21 June 1944
Official Description:

425

Date: 20 June 1944

423

Date: 19 June 1944

412

Date: 14 June 1944

407

Date: 12 June 1944

Places

Bomber crews from the 401st Bomb Group look over P-51 Mustang, FT-T, serial number 43-12172, of the 353rd Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group, at Deenethorpe airfield. One of their B-17 Flying Fortresses is in the background. Printed caption on reverse of print: '...401st Bomb Group look over a North American P-51 Mustang at an 8th Air Force base in England, 27 December 1943.'

Deenethorpe

Site type: Airfield
Known as: Benefield

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Other Prisoner of War (POW)	Germany	21 June 1944	Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria 48-12 (Work Camps 3324-46 Krumbachstrasse 48011, Work Camp 3368 Munich 48-11)
Born	Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA

Event

Location

Date

Description

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany

21 June 1944

Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria 48-12 (Work Camps 3324-46 Krumbachstrasse 48011, Work Camp 3368 Munich 48-11)

Born

Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA

Revisions

Date21 Nov 2021 23:11:58

Contributoracbernstein1

ChangesChanges to place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations

Sources

http://401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=0003

Date20 Jan 2020 00:06:22

Contributorjmoore43

ChangesChanges to biography

Sources

Added a "#" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" for clarity.

Date18 Jan 2020 04:50:21

Contributorjmoore43

ChangesChanges to service number and events

Sources

Added S/N and POW camp information from WW2 POW records at the National Archives.

Date23 Jun 2017 16:03:13

Contributorgeneral ira snapsorter

ChangesChanges to biography and events

Sources

Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

Date27 Sep 2014 18:13:43

ContributorAAM

ChangesAAM ingest

Sources

MACR 6000 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database