James Horace Curtis

Military

James Curtis was Top Turret gunner on B-17 #42-3190, shot down over France, 14 July 1943. Prisoner of War (POW).

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Units served with

A bomber crew of the 94th Bomb Group stand with their B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30200) nicknamed "Slo Time Sally" and a bomb inscribed 'Special delivery to Hitler'. Inscription on bomb reads: 'Special delivery to Hitler, From Peggy of St. Louis.'

94th Bomb Group

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

People

Brigadier-General Fred L. Anderson and his crew of the 94th Bomb Group with their B-17 Flying Fortress (XM-Z) at Bury St. Edmunds (Rougham). 19 May 1943.' Printed caption on reverse: '51783 AC- Brig. General Fred L. Anderson with crew of the 94th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, beside a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Back row, left to right: S/Sgt. J.D. Polk, ball turret gunner, Okla. City, Okla.; S/Sgt. A.W. Hornden[?], top turret gunner; T/Sgt. McNemar, Radio Operator, Weston, W. Va.; General Anderson; Col. J.

Eino Asiala

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 94th Bomb Group 333rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16064840
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Robert Thomas Conroy

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 94th Bomb Group 333rd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Roscoe F Greene

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 94th Bomb Group 333rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 20147842 at enlistment, then O-734337
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

Kee Hastings Harrison

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 94th Bomb Group 333rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-1699149
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Pilot
Brigadier-General Fred L. Anderson and his crew of the 94th Bomb Group with their B-17 Flying Fortress (XM-Z) at Bury St. Edmunds (Rougham). 19 May 1943.' Printed caption on reverse: '51783 AC- Brig. General Fred L. Anderson with crew of the 94th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, beside a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Back row, left to right: S/Sgt. J.D. Polk, ball turret gunner, Okla. City, Okla.; S/Sgt. A.W. Hornden[?], top turret gunner; T/Sgt. McNemar, Radio Operator, Weston, W. Va.; General Anderson; Col. J.

Richard Henry Lewis

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 94th Bomb Group 333rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 36345860
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Aircraft

Two German soldiers guard the wreck of a crashed B-17 Flying Fortress of the 94th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '14/7/43.'

42-3190

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Mr Five by Five, Nip N Tuck
  • Unit: 94th Bomb Group 333rd Bomb Squadron

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

13 June 1917 Arkansas, the son of Ray Troy Curtis and Cora Curtis

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

14 July 1943 Interned at Stalag Luft 3, Sagan/Zagan, Poland. Force-marched from there to Stalag 7A in Moosburg, Germany. Liberated there by US troops on 29 April 1945. NARA WWII POW record: “Returned to Military Control on 30 July 1945.”

Died

24 October 1984 Redwood Falls, Minnesota

Enlisted

Michigan

Buried

James Curtis rests at the Redwood Falls Cemetery, Redwood Falls, Minnesota

Revisions

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NARA WWII Enlistment records
NARA WWII POW records
E-mails 2004-2005 with local researcher Frenchman Loic Lemarchand
Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 114 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database