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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). Jack retired from USAF, with the rank of Senior Master Sgt in 1968, after WW2, Korean War and Vietnam service. Jack was WIA three times during WW2.
POW
Group
The 388th Bomb Group flew strategic bombing mission from Knettishall, Suffolk from June 1943 to the end of the war. During this time, though, detachments were sent to Fersfield, Norfolk to conduct Aphrodite missions. In these Aphrodite missions veteran...
Squadron
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...
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| Born | Sharon, Pennsylvania, USA | 7 September 1920 |
| Prisoner of War (POW) | Poznan Poland | 6 March 1944 – 1 March 1945 |
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Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow (formerly Heydekrug) Pomerania, Prussia (moved to Wobbelin Bei Ludwigslust) (To Usedom Bei Savenmunde) 54-16 |
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| 12 February 2020 22:46:18 | jmoore43 | Changes to service number and events |
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Added S/N and POW camp information from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA). |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 19 October 2017 19:16:53 | ferrolad1968 | Changes to biography |
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Jim Karr |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 19 October 2017 19:16:02 | ferrolad1968 | Changes to highest rank and role |
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Jim Karr |
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| 19 October 2017 19:13:31 | ferrolad1968 | Changes to biography |
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Jim Karr |
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| 19 October 2017 19:12:37 | ferrolad1968 | Changes to biography and events |
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Jim Karr , son. |
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| 27 September 2014 18:13:49 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3082 / MACR 3082, Losses of teh 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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