Joseph Anthony Pfeiffer Jr

Military
media-25883.jpeg UPL 25883 from crew photo, 1944

Timothy Motz

Object Number - UPL 25883 - from crew photo, 1944

Joseph Pfeiffer served as a tail gunner with the 708th Bomb Squadron of the 447th Bomb Group, flying bombing missions out of Rattlesden, England.

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Harold A Motz

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-717475
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Edwin E Wells

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Robert A Westrope

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Harold M Woods

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Engineer

Aircraft

42-37854

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Round Trip
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron

42-97400

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Fuddy Duddy
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron

43-37756

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Milk Wagon
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron

43-37774

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron

43-37797

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: American Beauty
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron

Missions

662

  • Date: 3 October 1944

658

  • Date: 2 October 1944

642

  • Date: 19 September 1944

637

  • Date: 17 September 1944

Places

Events

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Born

Marion, IN, USA 13 December 1923

Died

Marion, IN, USA 10 September 1984

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Timothy Motz, from 447th loading lists

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Timothy Motz, from 447th loading lists

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Timothy Motz; from a mission list kept by Harold Motz, compared with Doyle Shields, "History of the 447th Bomb Group"

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birth and death dates and locations added by Timothy Motz from "Pictorial History of the 447th Bombardment Group" (1945) and obituary: http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=pfeiffer&GSfn=Joseph&…;

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Timothy Motz, from notes on a crew photo from Harold Motz, 2016

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit History Roster, Enlisted Men, as of 01 August 1945

Joseph Anthony Pfeiffer: Gallery (35 items)

Object number: UPL 23925 - Map of 8th Air Force mission #548 on August 13...

Object number: UPL 23990 - Map from 8th Air Force mission #554 to Munster on...

Object number: UPL 23991 - Map for 8th Air Force mission #556 to Rositz on...

Object number: UPL 25876 - Map for 8th Air Force Mission #570 on August 25...

Object number: UPL 25877 - Map of 8th Air Force mission #575 to Brest, France...

Object number: UPL 25878 - Map of 8th Air Force mission 591 to Bremen on...

Object number: UPL 25883 - from crew photo, 1944

Object number: UPL 25891 - Map for 8th Air Force mission #595 to Mainz on...

Object number: UPL 25893 - penciled route is for 8th Air Force mission #606...

Object number: UPL 25904 - Map of the 8th air force mission #613 code-named...

Object number: UPL 25917 - Map of 8th Air Force mission #619 on September 10...

Object number: UPL 25922 - Map of 8th air force mission #623 to Fulda, on...