Rudie C Bartel

Military

Shot down by fighters and crashed at Isle of Ruegen on 6/20/44 in B-24 #4440163 Prisoner of War (POW)at Stalag Luft 3



POW

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Units served with

A Swedish Soldier guards a B-24 Liberator (serial number 44-40159) nicknamed "Boulder Buff" of the 492nd Bomb Group that has landed in Sweden.

492nd Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

44-40163

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 856th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Died

9 March 2005

Born

Springdale, Arkansas, USA

Buried

Bowie, Maryland

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

Baltic Sea 20 June 1944

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7080 / MACR 7080 & SECOND AIR DIVISION by Turner Publishing Company, D790.A2S45, 1998, page 201 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database