Richard Charles Huebotter
Military
USAAF Photo
Object Number - UPL 45576 - S/Sgt Richard C Huebotter, 368BS, 306BG, 8AF.
Assigned to 368BS, 306BG, 8AF USAAF. Dean Allen crew. Failed to Return (FTR) Gelsenkirchen in B-17 42-97946 'Hard To Get'; crashed at Budberg on 26-Aug-44. Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 8464
Awards: AM (3OLC), POW, GC, WWII Victory, EAME.
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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-759675
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hard T' Get
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania
![A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group wave to Picture Post Girls in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24471) nicknamed "Four of a Kind" at Thurleigh in December 1942. Image stamped on reverse: '"Picture Post" [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 11 Dec 1942.' [stamp], '238038.' [Censor no.] Handwritten in censor's blue pencil on reverse: 'American Flying Fortress crew are introduced to the girls they will meet at Picture Post Xmas Party.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379028.jpg.webp?itok=6Gc6iR0j)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Davenport, IA | 18 August 1922 | Son of Carl Frederic and Gertrude Anna [Neff] Huebotter. |
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Enlisted |
Santa Ana AAF, CA | 11 February 1943 | Santa Ana AAF, California |
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Based |
Thurleigh | 7 June 1944 - 26 August 1944 | Assigned to 368BS, 306BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Tychowo, Poland | 26 August 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV. |
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Other Baled out POW |
Budberg, Germany | 26 August 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) Gelsenkirchen in B-17 42-97946 'Hard To Get'; crashed at Budberg on 26-Aug-44. Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 8464 |
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Died |
Placentia, CA | 14 March 1998 | |
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Buried |
Loma Vista Memorial Park, Fullerton, Orange County, CA | 17 March 1998 | Loma Vista Memorial Park Fullerton, Orange County, California |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 8464 / MACR 8464, NARA, / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / http://www.306bg.org/crewphotos/Crew%20Pictures%20Adam-Rector/Crew%20Pi…
