Lester Kraft
MilitaryShot down on 14 October 1943 near Maintz in B-17 #4230709. Prisoner of War (POW)
POW
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Units served with
![The insignia of the 339th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group.](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-395038.jpg?itok=WZ1NRQ56)
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
![The insignia of the 96th Bomb Group.](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-395035.jpg?itok=01faXuTd)
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Places
![The smoking wreck of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30709) of the 96th Bomb Group that has crash landed near Ingwiller, France. Handwritten caption on reverse: '42-30709. Nr Ingwiller, France.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-408590.jpg?itok=4f78gO6q)
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Maywood, Missouri |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 836; Snetterton Falcons pg 60 & 75