Raymond O Rowe Jr
MilitaryCrashed near Keschnick in B-17 'Windy Lou' #42-31780 on 11/5/44, Prisoner of War (POW).
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Windy Lou
- Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 731st Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Ringgold, Georgia, USA | ||
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Zagan, Poland | 5 November 1944 | Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) 49-11 |
Revisions
Added POW camp info to the POW event and a S/N from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Copied "Summary biography" from a Duplicate person as part of a merge operation of dup people so the dup person can be deleted.
Added a connection to Stalag Luft 3 per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Corrected the name by moving "Jr" from the surname field to the suffix field and moving the last name from the middle name field to the surname field.
MACR 10346 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database