Lowery B Jennings

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media-24681.jpeg UPL 24681 Staff Sgt. Lowery Buford Jennings
B-17 Waist gunner with 569th bomber squadron, 390th bomb group.
Plane shot down over Ligen, Germany 1-11-1944. POW at Stalag Luft IV and also Stalag Luft I.

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Object Number - UPL 24681 - Staff Sgt. Lowery Buford Jennings B-17 Waist gunner with 569th bomber squadron, 390th bomb group. Plane shot down over Ligen, Germany 1-11-1944....

Shot down by fighters on return from mission to Oscherleben on 11 Jan 1944 in B-17G #42-39879. Prisoner of War (POW).

POW

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Units served with

390th Bomb Group

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

A B-17 Flying Fortress (TS-C, serial number 42-9768) of the 333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, takes off in front of another B-17 Flying Fortress (CC-Z) of the 569th Bomb Squadron, 390th Bomb Group.

569th Bomb Squadron

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

Aircraft

42-39879

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Unit: 390th Bomb Group 569th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born
Other Prisoner of War (POW)	Hollland	11 January 1944

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Date

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Born

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Prisoner of War (POW)

Hollland

11 January 1944

Revisions

Date24 Nov 2016 05:43:35

ContributorKWING

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Staff Sgt. Lowery B. Jennings

Date27 Sep 2014 18:19:23

ContributorAAM

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2023 / MACR 2023, 8th AF Losses / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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Object number: UPL 24681 - Staff Sgt. Lowery Buford Jennings B-17 Waist...