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![Capt James R Geary [ Sporting DFC and AM ] (390th BG) pilot 30 missions between 12-Aug-43 and 23-Mar-44, 18 x aboard 42-30434](https://www.americanairmuseum.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/media/media-31841.jpeg?itok=N-R4LIGD)
Capt James R Geary [ Sporting DFC and AM ] (390th BG) pilot 30 missions between 12-Aug-43 and 23-Mar-44, 18 x aboard 42-30434 "Betty Boop" 'The Pistol Packin' Mama". 1-Feb-44.
James R Geary Jr
Assigned to 570BS, 390BG, 8AF USAAF. Ended Tour Duty (ETD). Re-assigned to 350BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down 24-May-44 in B-17 42-97845. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5151.
Awards: DFC (OLC), AM, POW, WWII Victory, EAME (2 battle stars), AF Commendation (OLC), Distinguished Unit Citation (OLC), National Defense (1 battle star).
Awards: Remained in USAF serving in Korea and Vietnam rising to rank of Colonel.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 390th Bomb Group
Assigned to 570BS, 390BG, 8AF USAAF. Killed on Regensburg mission 17-8-43 aboard B17 42-30434 "Betty Boop - The Pistol Packin' Mama". 'Betty Boop' landed in Nth Africa. Killed in Action (KIA)
Awards: PH.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 100th Bomb Group
Assigned to 350BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF. Louis flew 30 missions as a Radio Operator with the 100th Bomb Group from Thorpe Abbots. He was shot down on 24-May-44 in B-17 42-97845 and was taken as a Prisoner of War.
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Military | Major | Bombardier | 100th Bomb Group
GROUP BOMBARDIER (ORIGINAL CADRE WITH 390TH BG).
Assigned to 570BS, 390BG, 8AF USAAF. Ended Tour Duty (ETD). Re-assigned to 350BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF.
Awards: DFC (OLC), AM (3OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.
Group
The 390th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Framlingham, Suffolk, between July 1943 and the end of the war in Europe. The Group was engaged in strategic missions until the invasion of Europe when its role became more of a tactical one. This...
Squadron
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 31/5/43; Smoky Hill 12/6/43; Rapid City 19/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Smoky Hill 23/6/43; Dow Fd 13/7/43; Assigned 570BS/390BG [DI-A] Framlingham 18/7/43; on Regensburg mission 17/8/43 Len Baumgartner was KIA; Missing in Action Regensburg...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 13/10/43; Gr Island 25/10/43; Romulus 1/11/43; Assigned 570BS/390BG [DI-A] Framlingham 10/11/43; Melvin Adams Wounded in Action on Merseburg mission 29/6/44 Returned to the USA 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 11/7/45;...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 13/11/43; Gt Falls 15/11/43; Denver 22/11/43; Kearney 27/11/43; Presque Is 25/12/43; Assigned 569BS/390BG [CC-H] Framlingham 2/1/44; suffered n/battle damaged hitting tree at Grundisburgh Hall, Sfk, being slow timed on 2/6/44, with...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 1/12/43; Kearney 17/12/43; Grenier 26/1/43; Assigned 569BS/390BG [CC-C] Framlingham 2/2/44 OLD SOLDIER; took off as weather ship before a mission 24/5/44 with Percy Stresing, Co-pilot: Bob Buckley, Navigator: Jean Raas, Bombardier:...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 11/12/43; Kearney 26/12/43; Prestwick 15/1/44; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-D] Framlingham 17/1/44; Missing in Action Pas de Calais 2/6/44 with Bob Crouch, Waist gunner: George Ferguson, Waist gunner: Ben Tureman (3 Prisoner of War); Co...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 19/10/43; Gr Island 1/11/43; Assigned 570BS/390BG [DI-P] Framlingham 12/11/43; Missing in Action Chartres 2/3/44 with Everett Ferguson, Navigator: Ed Imblum, Radio Operator: Gene Wilusz, Waist gunner: Bill Conrad,Tail gunner: Bill...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 9/10/43; Gr Island 24/10/43; Assigned 570BS/390BG [DI-R] Framlingham 11/11/43; sustained severe battle damaged on mission late 1943, crash landed at US fighter base at Wormingford, Essex, but repaired and returned to operations;...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 14/3/44; Hunter 7/4/44; Dow Fd 29/4/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN- ] Thorpe Abbotts 1/5/44; Missing in Action Berlin 24/5/44 with Capt Jim Geary, Co-pilot: Maj Maurice Fitzgerald, Navigator: Dort Payne, Bombardier: Edwin Stern, Flight...
Military site : airfield
Built for the Eighth Air Force from 1942 to 43, Framlingham was home first to the 95th Bomb Group, before that unit moved to RAF Alconbury. From 1943 to 1945, it was operated by the 390th Bomb Group. The airfield was handed back to the RAF in 1945, and...
Military site : airfield
Home of the 'Bloody Hundredth’, a Bomb Group with a reputation for high casualty rates, Thorpe Abbotts was under USAAF control from June 1943 to the end of the war. Some of the airfield survives today, and the control tower houses the 100th Bomb Group...
Cemetery
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Nyack, New York, USA | 17 October 1917 |
| Prisoner of War (POW) | Barth, Germany | 24 May 1944 – May 1945 |
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Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I. |
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| Shot down | 19288 Ludwigslust, Germany | 24 May 1944 |
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Shot down 24-May-44 in B-17 42-97845. Prisoner of War (POW). |
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| Died | Fort Pierce, FL, USA | 21 February 2001 |
| Buried | March 2001 | |
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Interred |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 20 February 2018 17:34:24 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, suffix, service number, highest rank, biography, awards, events, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/record/7381245-james-r-geary |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 14 July 2017 00:21:08 | JoCarter | Changes to aircraft associations |
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https://100thbg.com/index.php?option=com_bombgrp&view=personnel&Itemid=3... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:14:51 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
100th Bomb Group Foundation Directory, 2000 - 2001; MACR 5151 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5151 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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