Military
Prisoner of War (POW) Crashed at Sommerda on 10/7/44 in B-17 'Tornado Jr' #42107050
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...
Squadron
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...
| Event | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Born | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA | |
| Prisoner of War (POW) | Germany | 7 October 1944 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2014 18:13:46 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
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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