James Homer Wedding

Military

Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'. Prisoner of War (POW).

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Herman Arthur Peacher

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 17159837
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Lawrence John Scheiding

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16092460
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

George Napier Spaven

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13014831 / O-531028
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Robert Lyndel Zedeker

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-811278
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

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Event Location Date Description

Born

25 January 1921 Cabin John, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States

Enlisted

9 July 1942 Ft Myer, Virginia

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

22 April 1944 Captured in Ostenfelde, Germany. Interned at Stalag XVIIB in Braunau-Gneikendorf, near Krems, Austria. NARA WWII POW record : “Returned to Military Control 16 July 1945.”

Died

28 October 2000
Washington, DC (while working at the Army War College’s Government Engineers Reproduction Plant)

Buried

James Wedding rests at the Chattanooga National Cemetery in Chattanooga, Tennessee

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MACR 4180
WWII Enlistment records
WWII Draft card
WWII POW records
Downed Allied Aircraft Kampfflugzeug Unterlagen (KU) Reports KU 1487 at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/139542878
Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File

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MACR 4180

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4180 / MACR 4180 & Page 283 of the book LIBERATORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010 &

href="http://www.458bg.com/crew33spaven.htm">http://www.458bg.com/crew33spaven.htm> / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database