Walter Damian Czawlytko
MilitaryAssigned to 755BS, 458BG, 8AF USAAF. Perkinson crew. 2nd combat mission. Failed to Return (FTR) Aschersleben in B-24 42-95008; Shot down by fighters and crashed near Papenburg on 29-Jun-44 Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7086
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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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: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16009951 / O-743444
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Able Mabel
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Baltimore, Maryland | 10 June 1925 | Son of John and Henrietta Czawlytko. |
Enlisted |
Baltimore, MD | 5 August 1943 | Baltimore, Maryland |
Other Baled out POW |
Papenburg, Germany | 26 September 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) Aschersleben in B-24 42-95008; Shot down by fighters and crashed near Papenburg on 29-Jun-44 POW MACR 7086 |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Tychowo, Poland | 26 September 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV. |
Died |
Baltimore City, MD | 24 December 2017 | |
Buried |
Saint Stanislaus Cemetery, Baltimore, MD | 27 December 2017 | Saint Stanislaus Cemetery Baltimore, Maryland |
Based |
Horsham St Faith | 26 September 1944 | Assigned to 755BS, 458BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
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https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/352856
https://www.fold3.com/record/87390702-walter-d-czawlytko
https://www.458bg.com/crewperkinson.htm
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204917132/walter-damian-czawlytko
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7086 & Page 274 of the book LIBERAORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010