Joseph Farrar
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Crashed near Sommerda on 10/7/44 in B-17 'Tornado Jr. ' #42107050
Jack Austin Abadie
Military
Assigned to 334BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. Crashed at Sommerda on 10-Jul-44 in B-17 42-107050 'Tornado Jr', Prisoner of War (POW).
Awards: BS, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Post war: Volunteered for the infantry, commisioned, served in Korea, rising to Major.
Service
People
Units served with
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8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945. ... -
95th Bomb Group
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August... -
334th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-107050 Tornado Jr
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 7/2/44; Assigned: 398BG Rapid City AAF 4/3/44; Dow Fd 28/4/44; transferred 334BS/95BG [BG-O] Horham 12/5/44; 24m, MIA: Bohlen 7/10/44 with Joe Farrar, Co-pilot: Don Robinson, Navigator: Albt Monnett, Bombardier: Jack Abadie, Flight...
Associated Place
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Horham
Military site : airfield
Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group.... -
Stalag Luft IV
Other location
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Dulag Luft 12
Other location
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA | 16 July 1923 |
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Son of Albert Abadie. |
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| Enlisted | Harding Field, Baton Rouge, LA | 9 October 1942 |
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Harding Field, Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
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| Based | Horham | 1944 – 7 October 1944 |
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Assigned to 334BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Prisoner of War (POW) | Tychowo, Poland | 7 October 1944 – May 1945 |
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Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV. |
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| Died | 22 December 2005 | |
| Buried | 26 December 2005 | |
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Arlington National Cemetery |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 30 November 2021 20:31:59 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, service number, highest rank, biography, awards, events, person associations, unit associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/312778093 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 09 May 2020 02:02:28 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "-" to the A/C serial # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:13:46 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 9561 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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