Manley Hovey Dale Jr

Military

Manley Dale Jr was a Co-Pilot in the 463rd Bomb Group / 775th Bomb Squadron (15th Air Force), in Italy. He was on board B-17 # 42-31685 on the 10 May 1944 mission to the Wiener Neustadt aircraft factory, Austria. Made a Prisoner of War (POW) - Missing Air Crew Report - MACR 4660.

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Service Numbers: 32719960
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Flight Engineer / Top Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Service Numbers: 38396309
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
  • Role/Job: waist gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Service Numbers: 19005031 and O-751540
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Service Numbers: 12120237 and O-814293
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Service Numbers: 32751474
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Aircraft

Places

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-5287) of the 463rd Bomb Group, 15th Air Force in flight with open bomb bay doors. Handwritten caption on reverse: '463 BG Gills.'
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Foggia Satellite #1, San Nicola-d'Arpi

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Minnesota, United States 26 August 1919 the son of Manley Hovey Dale and Till A. Dale

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Sankt Johann am Steinfelde, Austria 10 May 1944 Bailed out of the flaming plane and was captured near Sankt Johann am Steinfelde, Austria, around noon the day of the crash

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

10 May 1944 - 29 April 1945 Interned at Stalag Luft 3; on the forced march from there to Stalag 7A, Moosburg, where he was liberated by US troops on 29 April 1945. NARA WWII POW records : “Returned to Military Control 7 June 1945”
Webster, Say County, South Dakota, United States

Buried

Manley Dale Jr rests at Section 54, Grave 3479

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MACR 4660
NARA WWII POW records
"Searching for Stanley - Unforgotten Hero of World War II", by Kay Hughes, niece and Harold E. Dwyer, brother, of Pilot Stanley N. Dwyer (iUniverse books - 2011)
Contacts with the Stanley Dwyer family.