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FLIGHT CREW OF SUZY SAGTITZ
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Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator and Gunner
Shot down in a frontal attack by fighters on the return from a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-31135 'Suzy Sagtitz' crashed near Schoonebekerveld, Holland. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 25/9/43; Gr Isle 8/10/43; Romulus 12/10/43; Assigned 562BS/388BG Knettishall 14/10/43; Missing in Action Berlin 6/3/44 with Montgomery Givens, Co-pilot: Harry Teat, Navigator: Ken Betts, Bombardier: Larry McMillan, Flight engineer...
Military site : airfield
Knettishall was built to Class A standard for an American Bomb Group that would be bringing up to forty heavy bombers with them in three or four Squadrons. The 388th Bomb Group, which stayed at Knettishall for their entire service in the ETO, flew B-17...
Other location
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 21 December 2018 22:13:46 | JAG | Changes to person associations |
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From the family of Technical Sargent James Geraghty |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 21 December 2018 22:01:14 | JAG | Changes to place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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From the family of Technical Sargent James Geraghty |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 21 December 2018 21:42:38 | JAG | Created entry with collection and caption |
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From the family of Technical Sargent James Geraghty, Radio Operator and Gunner on Suzy Sagtitz |
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