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.