William Frederick Domer

Military
media-20416.jpeg UPL 20416 William Fredrick Domer Air medal with 3 Oak leaf clusters. Purple Heart. wound in right hip from April 29. 1944 when B-17 my Dad was piloting was shot down #42-31773
talked to Bill in 1990 a couple of months before he died.

Personal Records of mine and conversation with Bill Domer in 1990.

Object Number - UPL 20416 - William Fredrick Domer Air medal with 3 Oak leaf clusters. Purple Heart. wound in right hip from April 29. 1944 when B-17 my Dad was piloting was...

Shot down 29 April 1944 in B-17 #4231773. Prisoner of War (POW).



POW

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Units served with

The insignia of the 385th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron

Places

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag 17b, Krems an der Donau, Austria

Events

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Prisoner of War (POW)

29 April 1944

Other

Entered service from

Ohio, USA

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Brought in information from a duplicate record for William F Domer. Sources:
MACR 4456 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
CRJohnstonjr: personal records from my Dad's scrapbook my mother kept of Dad's missions and flying in England in 1944 newspaper clipping of William Fredrick Domer missing in Action April 29, 1944

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personal knowledge of Bill Domer

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4456

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