James Arthur Bonner
Military222nd combat crew training school: Army air field Ardmore, Oklahoma. (1944). Baton Rouge, LA: Army and Navy Pub. of Louisiana.
James Arthur Bonner was born in California in 1917 to Edward and Agnes Bonner. He had a brother John Bonner who also served during WW II. He enlisted in the Army in 1941, and was commissioned an officer in 1943, going through combat training in Ardmore, Oklahoma in 1943-1944. He was assigned to the 340th bomb group, 570 Bomber Squadron, and flew several missions before being Shot down by flak and crashing at Dreux on 6/22/44 in B-17 'Sequatchiee' Prisoner of War (POW)
He received an Air Medal, POW medal
POW
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: T-2006
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Sequatchiee
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Redwood City, California, USA | 8 December 1917 | |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
France | 22 June 1944 - 22 June 1944 |
Revisions
222nd combat crew training school: Army air field Ardmore, Oklahoma. (1944). Baton Rouge, LA: Army and Navy Pub. of Louisiana.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5927 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database