Roland Magee

Military
media-33330.jpeg UPL 33330 Newspaper clipping of Sgt. Magee

Magee Family

Object Number - UPL 33330 - Newspaper clipping of Sgt. Magee

Roland Magee was Tail Gunner on B-17 #41-24465 'Montana Power', shot down 5 April 1943 in Belgium. Prisoner of War (POW). He had lost his eye to a Flak fragment during the attack. After landing in parachute, he was hidden by a farmer near Loenhout (12km East of the crash place in Kalmthout, Belgium), where the Germans brought his Pilot Robert Seelos to identify him. Also captured, he was sent to a German field hospital, from where he left around the end of April 1943 to the Luftwaffe Interrogation Center at Dulag Luft, Oberursel. From there, he was sent to Stalag 17B, in Braunau Gneikendorf, near Krems, Austria, where he was in Barrack 36B. NARA POW records : “Returned to Military control 27 01 1945”. As many other wounded POWs, he was part of a prisoner exchange program. Sent to Stockholm, Sweden, he boarded the “Gripsholm”, a Swedish liner transformed into an hospital ship and arrived in New York on 16 February 1945 as one of 463 US, 70 Canadian and more than 600 civilians repatriated from Europe. After being transferred to the Halloran Hospital, Staten Island, New York, he got a furlough and was ultimately honorably discharged. Sadly, he died a few months later, apparently in a motorcycle accident in California.

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Units served with

Official insignia of the 306th Bomb Group, approved 6 January 1943, and updated 2 October 1951.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 34258894
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 14071743
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16022965
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
Lieutenant Alexander Kramarinko of the 303rd Bomb Group with the engine of a B-17 Flying Fortress. Passed for publication 16 Dec 1942. Printed caption on reverse: '"Good Old Chi-Town". Lt. Alexander Kramarinko of the Air Corps used to be in the Swiss Dairy Bar at Haywood, Illinois. He lived with his parents at 1931 Potomac Avenue, Chicago andhis fieancee is Miss Jean Neuman at 323 Tremont Ave. Kenmore, N.Y. His very inclusive message is "Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to Good old Chi-Town." O.P.S. sho
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16035409 and O-661851
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11021749 and O-732757
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator / Bombardier

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Montana Power
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron

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Event Location Date Description

Born

Idaho 21 October 1913

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Braunau Gneikendorf, near Krems, Austria 5 April 1943 - 27 January 1945 Hit by a Flak fragment, he lost an eye, was treated by the Germans and sent to Stalag Luft XVIIB (17B) in Austria. Was repatriated in a prisoner exchange program. NARA POW records : “Returned to Military control 27 01 1945”.

Died

Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California, United States 20 November 1945
Emmett, Idaho, United States

Revisions

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ContributorED-BB
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Sources

MACR 15534
NARA WWII Enlistment records
NARA WWII POW records
Research on plane and crew for website www.evasioncomete.org

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ContributorAAM
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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 15533 / MACR 15533, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey pp. 99-100, First Over Germany by Russell Strong pp. 81-82, NARA POW record / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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