Leroy Parent

Military

Leroy Parent was a Tail Gunner in the 384th Bomb Group. He was on board B-17 # 42-5848 'Patches', badly damaged during the 30 July 1943 raid on Kassel and which landed at Boxted with 6 crew members injured.

Shot down on 14 October 1943 in B-17 #42-29800 'Me and My Gal', Leroy Parent was made Prisoner of War (POW).

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Units served with

384th Bomb Group

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

546th Bomb Squadron

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

People

David Hall Black

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 14090837 and O-673460
Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
Role/Job: Navigator

Seven men, wearing dress Air Force uniform, posed in front of a building. Four men standing to the rear and three men kneeling in front. All the men have Purple Heart medals pinned to their jacket left lapel

William Russell Harry

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 20323830 and O-515826
Highest Rank: Lieutenant
Role/Job: Pilot

Charles Pershing Mannka

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 13057282 and O-738710
Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
Role/Job: Bombardier

Julius M Markus

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 12180110
Highest Rank: Sergeant
Role/Job: waist gunner

John Conat McKenna

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 32140430
Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

Aircraft

42-29800

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Me An' My Gal
Unit: 305th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 335th Bomb Squadron 422nd Bomb Squadron 546th Bomb Squadron

42-30033

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Little America
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Three B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 94th Bomb Group are attacked by a Nazi Fighter aircraft during a mission. Printed caption on reverse of print: 'A-62641 USAF: Nazi fighter plane attacking Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses" during a bomb run over enemy installations somewhere in Europe, 10 September 1944. 100th[sic] Bomb Group, 3rd Bomb Division. U.S. Air Force Photo.'

VIII Bomber Command 115

Date: 14 October 1943

Places

Grafton Underwood

Site type: Airfield
Known as: Grafton Undermud

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	New Jersey, United States	17 August 1923
Enlisted	Fort Dix, New Jersey, United States	24 June 1942	as a Private in the Air Corps
Other Prisoner of War (POW)	Germany	14 October 1943	Interned at Stalag Luft 3. On the forced march from there to Stalag 7A Moosburg, liberated 27 April 1945 by US troops. NARA WWI POW records :"Returned to military control 12 June 1945".
Died		7 June 1991
	Mercer County, New Jersey, United States
Buried	Sutter Cemetery, Sutter, New Jersey

Revisions

Date30 Oct 2015 15:33:49

ContributorED-BB

ChangesChanges to firstname, service number, biography, events, person associations, place associations and mission associations

Sources

MACR 840
NARA WWI Enlistment records
NATA WWII POW records

Date27 Sep 2014 18:18:20

ContributorAAM

ChangesAAM ingest

Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 840 / MACR 840, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop & Hey p. 214, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=… / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database