Robert Harold Brown

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media-21875.jpeg UPL 21875 Robert Brown's POW card at the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he and others arrived on the 20 August 1944 convoy from Paris. Buchenwald was administered by the Gestapo and after the discovery of this breach of the Geneva Convention, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, head of the Luftwaffe, ordered the airmen to be put in a camp for Prisoners of War. Robert Brown and the others left Buchenwald on 19 October 1944.

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Object Number - UPL 21875 - Robert Brown's POW card at the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he and others arrived on the 20 August 1944 convoy from Paris. Buchenwald was...

Shot down 24 April 1944 in B-17 #42-31346 'Shack Rabbit'. Initially evaded. Arrested. Prisoner of War (POW).

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Units served with

The insignia of the 384th Bomb Group.

384th Bomb Group

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

People

The insignia of the 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group.

James Asa Atkins

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35666456
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Walter Lewis Harvey

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-672350
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
The insignia of the 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group.

Joseph Wilfred Kell

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-757621
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: C0-pilot
The insignia of the 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group.

Cornelius Patrick McManus

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11057514
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner
The insignia of the 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group.

Richard Eugene Rader

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-734835
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

Aircraft

42-31346

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Shack Rabbit
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron

Missions

315

  • Date: 24 April 1944

Places

Buchenwald

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Konzentrationslager Buchenwald

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Evaded capture (EVD)

24 April 1944 - 5 August 1944 Initially evaded with the help of French patriots and Résistance members. Caught in an infiltration of the evasion network and arrested in an appartment Rue de Sebastopol in Paris on 5 August 1944.

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

5 August 1944 - 29 April 1945 After his capture and interrogation, like more than 150 Allied airmen, he was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. All were released from there on order of Marshall Goering on 19 October 1944. Sent to Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia. Force-marched from there at the end of January 1945, he ended up in Stalag 7A Moosburg. Liberated there by Gen. George Patton's troops on 29 April 1945.

Born

Rochester, New York, USA

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NARA Captured German Reports - BUCHENWALD POW cards

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MACR 4355

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384thbombgroup.com

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4355 / MACR 4355, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=… / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

Robert Harold Brown: Gallery (2 items)

The insignia of the 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group.

Object number: FRE 5133 - The insignia of the 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th...

Object number: UPL 21875 - Robert Brown's POW card at the Buchenwald...