Robert Hugh Flanagan Jr

Military

Assigned to 817BS, 483BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Budapest 30-Jul-44; flak, crashed Sziget Szent; Prisoner of War(POW) MACR 7105.



Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

Seen through a 433rd Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress' strike camera, a 816th Bomb Squadron B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5786) nicknamed "Whizzer II" goes down over Nis in Yugoslavia on the 15th of April 1944 in a gout of flame after taking a direct flak hit. There were no survivors. Official caption on image: "(483BG:4M3:2VI) (4:15:1208) (24:21300) ([south-west arrow] 140 [degrees]) (Nis M/Y Yugo) (Ship 111 816 Sq)." Handwritten caption on reverse: '15/4/44. 483BG, 15AF. Nis, Yugoslavia. 42-5786
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 483rd Bomb Group 817th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-745737
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 483rd Bomb Group 817th Bomb Squadron

Places

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
Prisoners of war, including Colonel Hubert Zemke of the 479th Fighter Group at Stalag Luft I.
  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

12 July 1922 Son of Robert Hugh Snr and Helen Estelle [Crutchfield] Flanagan.

Enlisted

10 November 1942

Other

Baled out POW

30 July 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Budapest 30-Jul-44; flak, crashed Sziget Szent; POW MACR 7105.

Other

Prisoner of War(POW)

30 July 1944 Prisoner of War(POW). Stalag Luft I.

Died

18 January 1988

Buried

23 February 1988 Grace Episcopal Cemetery Bremo Bluff, Fluvanna County, VA

Based

30 July 1944 Assigned to 817BS, 483BG, 15AF USAAF.

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