John Charles Bushing
Military
42-29365
466th BG | 787th BS
08 Apr 1944 National Archives and Records Administration
A/C # in IWM Database is incorrect as stated (41-29365)
It SHOULD BE 42-29365.
Object Number - UPL 42639 - MACR 3840 42-29365 466th BG | 787th BS 08 Apr 1944
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29365, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Connections
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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: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O 684326
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Logansport, Indiana, USA | 27 October 1922 | |
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Enlisted |
Indianapolis, Indiana | 7 January 1943 | |
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Other 466th BG Combat Tour |
Attlebridge Airfield, UK | 22 March 1944 - 8 April 1944 | |
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Other Shot Down/Wounded |
in the vicinity of Vorsfelde, Wolfsburg, Germany | 8 April 1944 | Seriously burned fighting fires in the bomb bay started by the ME 109's attack. He took 18 months to fully heal |
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Died |
Monticello, IN 47960, USA | 7 May 1991 | JOHN CHARLES BUSHING MONTICELLO — John Charles Bushing, 68, of 210 S. Beach St., died at 10:30 a.m Tuesday in White County Memorial Hospital. He had been ill five years. Born Oct. 27, 1922, in Logansport, he was the son of William and Elsie Williams Bushing. On Sept. 16, 1946, in Logansport, he was married to Mary L. Harpel, who survives. He had lived in Monticello since 1952, coming from Logansport. He was a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran, having served in World War II. He was a prisoner of war for one year when his plane was shot down in Germany. He escaped and was rescued by British troops. He had worked at the former RCA plant in Monticello from 1951 to 1965. He owned a public accounting and tax consulting firm in Monticello from 1965 to 1991. He attended Grace Community Baptist Church. He was a member of the Monticello Masonic Lodge and Murat Shrine Club in Indianapolis. Also surviving is one son, Terry A., of Monticello. |
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Buried |
Monticello, IN 47960, USA | 10 May 1991 | IOOF Riverview Cemetery Monticello White County Indiana, USA |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Zagan, Poland | 8 April 1944 | Stalag Luft IV |
Revisions
Added a "-" to the A/C serial # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=8939&h=3724477…
"Attlebridge Arsenal" - Brassfield & Wassom, page 124
466th BG Historian
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bushing&GSfn=John…;
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3840 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
