William C Berry
Military
This is the plane my grandpa was in and he was arlo skeem
Object Number - UPL 38799 - A crew from 398th Bomb Group, 603rd Bomb Squadron.
Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down by fighters and Crashed near Hinter-Henbach on 7/16/44 in B-17 42-102476. Reported Prisoner of War (POW) 19 Sept 1944.
Interred Stalag Luft I in Barth. Returned to Active Duty. Has four children. Died in a crash of a B-47 in 1955. Wife, Jeanne Berry, did not remarry. She passed away on June 10, 2011. Both buried in Dayton Memorial Park Cemetery.
POW
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 398th Bomb Group 603rd Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Other Prisoner of war |
Germany | 16 July 1944 | |
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Died |
6 January 1955 | ||
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Born |
Berea, KY, USA | ||
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Buried |
Dayton, Ohio |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7242 / MACR 7242; 398th History, Vol II / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
