John L Zimmerman

Military

Shot down by flak and crashed at Warnemuende on 8/6/44 in B-17 'Round Tripper' #42-31369, Prisoner of War (POW).



Plane has been found and brought up from the Baltic Sea, plane is in Denmark.



POW

Connections

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-31369

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Round Tripper
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron

44-6145

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Cover Girl
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron

Missions

A B-24 Liberator of the 492nd Bomb Group bombs a target near Hamburg. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'USAF- 492nd BG showing successful result on oil target near Hamburg, 6 Aug 1944.'

524

  • Date: 6 August 1944
A mission log for Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst of the 91st Bomb Group, 3 August 1944 -15 December 1944. Image via Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst, 91st Bomb Group.

519

  • Date: 5 August 1944

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Roxney, West Virginia, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany 6 August 1944

Revisions

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Contributoracbernstein1
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http://401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=2692

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Contributorjmoore43
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Added a "-" to the A/C serial # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.

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ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7887 / MACR 7887,

href="http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=2692">http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=2692> / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database