Jack Winthrop Porter Sr
Military
L-R Stand.- Sgt Robert Cook (G), Sgt Jack Porter (G), Sgt Kenneth Dyer (R), Sgt Billy Espich (G), Sgt Edwin Pixley (G), SSgt Charlie Dugosh (E)
L-R Kneeling - 1st Lt Robert Winn (P), 2nd Lt James Harmon (CP), 2nd Lt David Tobin (N), 2nd Lt Richard Brady (B) Billy J Espich collection
Billy J Espich WWII Collection
Object Number - UPL 48194 - 8th Air Force, 2nd Air Division, 20th Combat Wing, 448th Bomb Group, 712th Bomb Squadron, Crew #17. L-R Stand.- Sgt Robert Cook (G), Sgt Jack Porter...
Assigned to 712BS, 448thBG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 564BS, 389BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Pforzheim hit by flak, crash landed just outside Ransart, France 1-Apr-44 POW. MACR 3596.
Awards: AM, PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Wing
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
- Unit Hierarchy: Wing
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 2nd Air Division 20th Combat Bomb Wing 389th Bomb Group 448th Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron 712th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11066679 / O-688504
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 448th Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron 712th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11130339
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 448th Bomb Group 712th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15330812
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 2nd Air Division 20th Combat Bomb Wing 2nd Combat Bomb Wing 389th Bomb Group 448th Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron 712th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18201733
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner ; Flight Engineer / Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 448th Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron 712th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31277381
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag 17b, Krems an der Donau, Austria
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Jackson County, MI | 4 August 1918 | Son of Francis M and Pearl E Porter. |
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Enlisted |
Kalamazoo, MI | 2 June 1942 | Kalamazoo, Michigan |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Krems, Austria | 1 April 1944 - 11 May 1945 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag XVIIb. |
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Other Crash landed |
Ransart, France | 1 April 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Pforzheim hit by flak, crash landed Arras 1-Apr-44 POW. MACR 3596. |
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Died |
Swartz Creek, Michigan | 18 December 2005 | |
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Buried |
Great Lakes National Cemetery Holly, Oakland County, MI | 21 December 2005 | Great Lakes National Cemetery Holly, Oakland County, Michigan |
| Jackson County, MI, USA | |||
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Based |
Hethel | 1 April 1944 | Assigned to 564BS, 389BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Based |
Seething | Assigned to 712BS, 448thBG 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Merged with https://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/104033 - Source - Contributor dwk1927 (Billy J Espich WWII Collection)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145191659/charlie-leroy-dugosh
All added or changed data is done referencing my Father's Personal Records and My Own Research and Documents found. I have stood at the location where the plane crashed landed and talked to a family member of the land owner.
My father's records include transfer orders from Hethel 448th BG, 712 BS to Seething 389th BG, 564 BS. Their newly assembled crew , which included my father and two others from the 712 BS, Dugosh and Brady, helped make up the crew of 41-28763 of the 564 BS. Their first flight together was hit by Flak and crashed onto a farm field just outside of Ransart, France.
Records of Stalag 17B are very well established. My father had a diary and other records, such as Discharge Papers, 17B Reunions, Articles from the MI State Police News, and many others
Personal records of my father, my visits to the crash site and talking to the descendants of land owner, site records and photographs.
MACR 3596 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
