Victor Jay Guthrie
MilitaryShot down 18 April 1944 in B-17 #4237902 'Sure Thing', while serving as a Bombardier. Becoming a Prisoner of War (POW), he would survive the war.
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- Date: 9 March 1944
- Date: 4 March 1944
- Date: 3 March 1944
- Date: 2 March 1944
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Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Moore, Montana, USA | 17 February 1917 | |
Enlisted |
Seattle, Washington, USA | 14 March 1942 | Enlisted as an Aviation Cadet with the enlisted serial number 19094573. |
Enlisted |
26 March 1943 | Records indicate that he has two enlistment dates. This is possibly because he was an Aviation Cadet, and as such, his Cadet and Pilot training took just over a year, upon which he was briefly discharged and then immediately reinstated, but with his "Officer" serial number and rank. | |
Other Shot down |
Barnewitz, Germany | 18 April 1944 | Shot down over a mission to Oranienburg, Germany, while on B-17 42-37902, where he was the aircraft's Bombardier. |
Other Prisoner Of War |
Stalag III, Sagan, Poland | 18 April 1944 | Served roughly 7 months as a POW at Stalag III. It is highly likely that he was one of the prisoners who were liberated at Stalag VII-A in April of 1945, when the prisoners of Stalag III were transferred there. This would mean he spent almost a year as a POW. |
Died |
Portland, Oregon, USA | 4 March 2003 | |
Buried |
Riverview Abbey Mausoleum and Crematory, Portland, Oregon, USA | 4 March 2003 | |
Based |
Framlingham | Assigned to 568BS, 390BG, 8AF. |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4013 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database