Rolla C Kilgore
MilitaryPrisoner of War (POW) Shot down by flak and crashed into channel on 8/4/44 in B-17 #446098
POW near Peenemünde in camp run by Lüftwaffe. Marched through Germany, going from 180 to 108 lbs.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
7 December 1920 | ||
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Prisoner of war |
4 August 1944 - 1 February 1945 | POW near Peenemünde in camp run by Lüftwaffe. Marched through Germany, first east, then south west, going from 180 to 108 lbs. Liberated by Americans sometime late into the war, but timeframe uncertain. | |
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Died |
6 October 2000 | Died of a heart attack, had blocked arteries. Date uncertain. |
Revisions
More from my family, information from Dr. James Oliver Logan Smith
Information from my Grandfather (his son in law, married to his daughter Terry Kilgore).
Added: information about time as POW, corrected false information about being killed in action, and added information about his actual death.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7700 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database