John F Conboy

Military

POW/ Battle of the Rhine/ GCM Crashed on 11/26/44 in B-24 #4251549

Connections

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51681) of the 453rd Bomb Group flies in formation with a fellow Liberator of the 453rd and and a pathfinder Liberator of the 445th Bomb Group. Image via Alan Rowsell.

445th Bomb Group

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

703rd Bomb Squadron

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

Aircraft

42-51549

Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
Unit: 445th Bomb Group 703rd Bomb Squadron

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	22 February 1923
Other Prisoner of War (POW)	Germany	26 November 1944

Event

Location

Date

Description

Born

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

22 February 1923

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany

26 November 1944

Revisions

Date27 Sep 2014 18:15:59

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Birsic; self/relative MACR 11218 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 11218 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database