Robert J Fanning
Military
Object Number - FRE 1493 - Bob Pfieffer and his crew of the 562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group with their B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30213) nicknamed "Lil' One"....
Prisoner of War.
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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: Lil One
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group Can Do 366th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Sondra Kay
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA | 18 June 1921 | |
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Enlisted Prisoner of War (POW) |
Pocatello, ID, USA | 27 July 1942 - 6 March 1944 | |
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Other 388th BG Combat Tour |
Knettishall, Diss IP22 2TH, UK | 12 August 1943 - 6 March 1944 | |
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Other POW |
78-220 Tychowo, Poland | 6 March 1944 - 1 June 1945 | Stalag Luft IV |
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Died |
Salt Lake City, UT, USA | 27 May 1982 | |
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Buried |
Idaho Falls, ID, USA | 30 May 1982 | Rose Hill Cemetery • Idaho Falls, Bonneville County, Idaho, USA |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3034, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / MACR 3084 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
