Theodore Goitein
Military
Associated people.
Object Number - UPL 55414 - 526th BS crew. Pilot and Co-pilot not picture, at Kimbolton Air Base. Top row left, Earnest B Duncan, Ted Goitein, Robert Goodrich (reassigned...
Shot down in 42-97163 on 13 September 1944 Merseburg synthetic oil mission when the plane received permission to and in France after 2 engines were out and a third was erratic. He was in Hospital in France after the crash.
Ted lost a leg as a result of the crash. Repatriated to US - married his beloved physical therapist.
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Snow white
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron 527th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
MACR 8899;
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum Membership List, July 2000/MACR 8899; 379th Bombardment Group Anthology, pg 323;