James A McCammond Jr
MilitaryJoined Sqd 3-Aug-42. ETO/Queen Mary 5-Sep-42. On 15-Feb-43 in B-24D 41-23800 'The Captain and the Kids' while serving as Ball Turret Gunner the aircraft was hit by flak at the start of a bomb run putting an engine out of action. FW 109s put out another engine then over the sea a 3rd engine burst into flames. Cpt Cramer made a wheels up landing at Sandwich Flats on Kent coast. He was wounded but Returned to Duty.
Shot down 14 May 1943 in B-24D 41-23819 'Rugged Bunny' while serving as Ball Turret Gunner the aircraft was attacked by fighters on a mission to Kiel, Germany. He was able to bale out of the aircraft and was captured as Prisoner of War (POW). The aircraft crashed near Eckernforde, Germany.
NOTE: This entry COMBINES data from Paul A. Andrews Project Bits and Pieces.
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
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 14 May 1943
- Date: 15 February 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Pathway
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Wounded in Action (WIA) |
Dunkirk, France | 15 February 1943 | Wounded in B-17F 41-23800 when aircraft was damaged by flak over the target of Dunkirk, France and then attacked by fighter. Aircraft made it back to England but made a wheels-up landing at Sandwich Flats, Kent. |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Krems an der Donau, Austria | 14 May 1943 - 7 June 1945 | On B-24D 41-23819 he baled out and was captured. Held at Stalag 17B, Braunau-Gneikendorf (near Krems), Austria. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 7-Jun-45 |
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Born |
Darien, Connecticut |
Revisions
Surname correction according to http://www.8thairforce.com/44thbg/8balltails/Vol.%203%20Issue%202%20Sum…
Lee Cunningham 17-Feb-2015. Added NOTE on combination of data from A DUPLICATE from Paul Andrews Project Bits and Pieces.
Lee Cunningham 17-Feb-2015. Added SN per MACR 15509 B-24D 41-23819; Added POW event per National Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database; made connections to Place, 2 Aircraft and 2 Missions within existing website data; Added RTD event and edited Biography based on "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 15509, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop and Hey, p.77, 44th BG Roll of Honor and Casualties by Lundy pp. 48-49, 70-73, NARA POW records which spells last name as Mac Cammond in dbase / Webb Todd