James B Dryden | American Air Museum

James B Dryden Jr

Military

Prisoner of War (POW) Crashed near Medenblick on 11/6/44 in B-17 'Lady Jane' #42107009

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

The insignia of the 613th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group.

613th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-107009

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Lady Jane
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron

Places

Bomber crews from the 401st Bomb Group look over P-51 Mustang, FT-T, serial number 43-12172, of the 353rd Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group, at Deenethorpe airfield. One of their B-17 Flying Fortresses is in the background. Printed caption on reverse of print: '...401st Bomb Group look over a North American P-51 Mustang at an 8th Air Force base in England, 27 December 1943.'

Deenethorpe

Site type: Airfield
Known as: Benefield

Stalag Luft IV

Site type: Prisoner of war camp
Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Nashville, Tennessee

Revisions

Date1 Mar 2017 17:04:46

ContributorLucy May

Changes

Sources

http://www.ww2pow.info/index.php?page=directory&rec=60734

Date27 Sep 2014 18:14:08

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 10349, http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=1991